Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:41:07 -0500 From: Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net> To: Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net>, paul van den bergen <pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question.... Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20031127003929.01e02930@pop.voyager.net> In-Reply-To: <20031120004312.GA585@lewiz.org> References: <200311201127.59090.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> <200311201113.29006.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> <20031120002418.GA16870@lewiz.org> <200311201127.59090.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au>
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Mergemaster is definately one way to do it, but I prefer
Portupgrade. It's much simpler as far as I'm concerned and does as good a
job as mergemaster with less thinking involved on the part of the user. :)
Just CVsup your ports, then do "portupgrade -r -all", then walk
away and let it run. If you want to do a single port, just do "portupgrade
-r portname"
Best of luck. :)
At 12:43 AM 11/20/03 +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote:
> > 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?
>
>On the whole... no. But that doesn't mean you won't run into problems.
>You can resolve those when you get there though ;)
>
> > for that matter, am I likely to encounter any issues with
> > configuration files? /etc/... and /usr/local/etc/... ???
>
>Try man mergemaster.
>
> Best wishes,
>
>-lewiz.
>
>--
>I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964.
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