From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Aug 12 22:33:52 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 E6F7E16A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:33:52 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from tmgcon.com (tmgcon.com [204.202.11.250])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FBC43D55
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:33:52 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from gentoo@tmgcon.com)
Received: from gentoo (222-152-139-28.jetstream.xtra.co.nz [222.152.139.28])
	(authenticated bits=0)
	by tmgcon.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7CMXpYX001049
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:33:52 GMT
From: Tom Munro Glass <gentoo@tmgcon.com>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:33:44 +1200
User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <200408131033.44464.gentoo@tmgcon.com>
Subject: Managing ports on ViaVerio VPS v2 server
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:33:53 -0000

I have recently migrated from a VPS v1 to VPS v2 server, and with it comes the 
advantage of being able to install software from ports. One of the first 
things I installed was portupgrade, thinking I would be able to manage future 
installations and upgrades in the normal way.

The problem is that some software, in particular Apache and Perl, is 
preinstalled and possibly tweaked for the Virtual Private Server environment. 
So when I try and run portupgrade I get loads of "stale dependency" messages. 
For example, I installed SpamAssassin 2.63 some time ago, and I have tried 
using portupgrade to upgrade to 2.64, but it won't work.

My questions are:

1) how should I manage ports in this environment?

2) should I use cpan instead of portinstall/portupgrade to manage perl 
modules?

Regards,

Tom Munro Glass