From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 21:31:13 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 9223816A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:31:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragoncrest.jasnetworks.net (dragoncrest.jasnetworks.net [65.194.254.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E6443FB1 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:31:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dragoncrest@voyager.net) Received: from works.voyager.net (works.jasnetworks.net [192.168.0.5]) hAR0jFZ9027563; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:45:16 GMT (envelope-from dragoncrest@voyager.net) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20031127003929.01e02930@pop.voyager.net> X-Sender: dragoncrest@pop.voyager.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:41:07 -0500 To: Lewis Thompson , paul van den bergen From: Dragoncrest 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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, 27 Nov 2003 05:31:13 -0000 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. >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >-| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |-