From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 16:28:38 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 E852D16A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:28:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from swin.edu.au (c3p0.cc.swin.edu.au [136.186.1.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6959743FBF for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:28:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au) Received: from pvdbergen.caia.swin.edu.au (pvdbergen.caia.swin.edu.au [136.186.229.26]) by swin.edu.au (8.9.3p2-20030918/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA611538; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:27:59 +1100 (EST) From: paul van den bergen To: Lewis Thompson Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:27:59 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200311201113.29006.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> <20031120002418.GA16870@lewiz.org> In-Reply-To: <20031120002418.GA16870@lewiz.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311201127.59090.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question.... 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: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:28:39 -0000 On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:24 am, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:13:29AM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote: > > is there a method (other than de-installing all pkgs and reisntalling) > > to upgrade the ports or packages appropriately from 4.8 to 4.9? > > Not quite sure I fully understand, but you might want to take a look at > portupgrade (portupgrade -a -f ;). It's in ports/sysutils. > > Best wishes, > > -lewiz. Ta... I'll give it ago... in clarification.... if I upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9, will I also have to upgrade (by whatever method) the applications running on the box? I.e. those that are not part of the src tree? for that matter, am I likely to encounter any issues with configuration files? /etc/... and /usr/local/etc/... ??? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made." Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824