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On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 07:50:17 +0000, Rob DeMarco  
<r.p.demarco@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 15:55, Paul Mather wrote:

>> You should be able to use portupgrade to upgrade your linux_base-6.1_6
>> to a more recent version.  This does assume you have the ports tree
>> installed (and preferably up to date via cvsup) under /usr/ports...
>
>   While I have some familiarity with the ports tree, I didn't install
> it this time because of limited disk space (though I suppose I could
> do a partial port-tree install).  Also, my P150 makes compiles long
> and painful :)
>   To avoid all that, I'm trying to see if a simple binary pkg_add
> to Linux-emul 7 would do the trick.

Portupgrade can be made to use packages (see the man page), avoiding the  
compile problem.

>> If you don't have portupgrade (sysutils/portupgrade), then you should
>> install it.  It's really useful!

What he said.

Jud