From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 11:30:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C3E37B401 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out002.verizon.net (out002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC3E43F93 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:30:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ej.cerejo@laposte.net) Received: from laposte.net ([68.160.106.19]) by out002.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030415183047.ZDPS13884.out002.verizon.net@laposte.net>; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:30:47 -0500 Message-ID: <3E9C4FD5.3000703@laposte.net> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:30:45 -0400 From: "E. J. Cerejo" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kok Kok References: <20030415142410.84052.qmail@web13309.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [68.160.106.19] at Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:30:46 -0500 cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: port upgrade help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 18:30:49 -0000 Kok Kok wrote: > Hi all > > I am running freebsd 4.6. I have question about port > > How do I upgrade it? I am using cvsup and only upgrade > the port If you running 4.6 you shouldn't upgrade your ports tree, upgrade to, at least 4.8 or stable first. You can learn this from: http://mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ or http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > > If I installed port apache and ssh before, do I need > to remove them before I upgrade? You can use portupgrade, it's in /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade but then again I would recommend upgrading FreeBSD to 4.8 or stable. You can learn on how to use portupgrade here: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/1385