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Date:      Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:35:50 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com>
Cc:        stable <stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Portupgrade Utility
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0201071134030.25474-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20020106165913.J71102@hal9000.halplant.com>

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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Andrew J Caines wrote:

> While portupgrade is a fantastic tool, don't forget it's _port_upgrade and
> only applies to ports, so isn't really much use as a base tool, nevermind
> issues about its dependencies.

It's great; however (and this isn't a portupgrade problem, it's an
-occasional- port/package problem) the utility of the binary upgrade is
somewhat marred by the occasional prebuilt package that insists on
installing a config file (rather than a *.conf.sample).


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