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Subject: Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?
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On Thursday 10 November 2005 12:27, Pete French wrote:
> Thanks for all the comments - it sounds like it's a pretty safe thing to
> do. I have one more question though - when I upgrade a machine this way I
> will remove all the ports first, so it is just back to the basic system.
> But Perl is now a port - should I remove this, or should I leave it alone,
> i.e. is it required for the build process ?

You don't have to remove the ports prior to upgrading. Just recompile them 
later.
A "portupgrade -fa" will do the trick.

I do this port-rebuild remotely using "screen" thus in case of a lost 
connection I can reconnect to the portupgrade output. In this case I don't 
upgrade screen and the command is like "portupgrade -fpa -x screen"

> cheers,
>
> -pcf.
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