From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 12:14:15 2003 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 6107737B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 12:14:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from stargate.northwindcom.net (110-47-237-24.gci.net [24.237.47.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F0043F3F for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 12:14:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@northwindcom.net) Received: from nwcadmin (115-44-237-24.gci.net [24.237.44.115]) by stargate.northwindcom.net (Postfix) with SMTP id D067A1B8; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:14:07 -0900 (AKST) From: "Beech Rintoul" To: "Toomas Aas" , Subject: RE: portupgrading problems Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:14:01 -0900 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200302042007.h14K74m06181@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Toomas Aas Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 11:06 AM To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrading problems > Can someone explain the best way to deal with the updating process? How to > minimize updating problems? If it ain't broken, don't upgrade it ;-) -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Life would be easier if I had the source code. I use portupgrade (in the ports). It does a very good job with both updates and keeping the dependencies straight. Beech ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Network Administrator - akbeech@northwindcom.net /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99518-1841 No More Spam! http://www.knockmail.com/default.asp?AID=B0R00073 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message