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Date:      Tue, 17 Sep 2002 07:24:30 -0400
From:      "Anthony Abby" <anthonyabby@mail.aplusdata.com>
To:        "'sigwart koebel'" <s.koebel@web.de>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, ABDALLAH Faycal <faycal.abdallah@cegetel.fr>
Cc:        "'ports@freebsd.org'" <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ports question
Message-ID:  <200209170724.AA1228275958@mail.aplusdata.com>

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>hi list,
>
>i recently cvsuped my ports collection so that i can install the latest
>software versions... but the problem is that when the new software is
>installed the old one (that was installed during installation of freebsd)
>will not be uninstalled (such as named 8.x.x and opessl-0.9.6a) and some
>software needs the new ports to be used, as an example: apache2.0.40 needs
>at least openssl-0.9.6g to be installed.... i tried to use "portupgrade
>openssl\*" but without any success...
>Is there is a method to uninstall the software installed by default with
>freebsd so that the newly installed packages see the most recent installed
>software
>
>and thax a lot for any help
>
>uname -a : FreeBSD BigDADI 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #2: Tue Sep 17
>10:40:48 CEST 2002     faissal@BigDADI:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL_PC4_V6
>i386
>
>another thing: when tryin to install FreeBSD on a intel4 machine the system
>panic (resource_list_release : resource list is not busy) just after the
>kernel visual configuration mode and the system reboots automatically
>
>thx again


Portupgrade should have worked.  Could you post the error you got when you ran portupgrade?  Outside of that, you can also run 'pkgdb -F' and remove the older versions of whatever duplicate software is installed.

Anthony

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