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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Zoltan Frombach wrote:

> Thank you for your prompt reply! All of the mentioned conditions are true in 
> my case, so I guess this is the way I'm gonna go. I have a few ports that I 
> compile with custom command line options, but I can always re-compile those 
> later just by issuing individual portupgrade -f portname commands. My main 
> point is to shorten the downtime this server must suffer at the 
> "upgradathon". ;-)

Just as a word of caution, when jumping between versions of FreeBSD, you 
should upgrade ruby and portupgrade manually first and then performing the 
portupgrade on all ports. This isn't documented, but I've run into 
instances where some changes to the base system broke ruby...

Regards,
Andy

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