From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 9 22:51:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 3023916A40F for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 22:51:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3571D43D46 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 22:51:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (kline@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k89MpYBI061775 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:51:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) id k89MpWbi061774 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:51:32 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20060909225132.GA61712@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Subject: what's the best way to re-install ports as packages? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 22:51:49 -0000 People, In trying to restore my original main box, since I'm running 6.1, packages are now available. A few days ago I began portupgradingg stuff. kde-lite and gnome2-lite among them. Turns out that several packages were 'not available' and my build-state was/is askew. I've gone back to compiling everything from src. I tried building only just the missing packages, but got errs and the portupgrade -fkPP was not happy. rsync capabilities and auto tar'ing of major config files is undergoing. (In fact, if 6.1 has a fatal trap, I'm prepared for it.) But having a strategy of upgrading ports on my other [5.x] servers, and on my new 6.1 would be *beyond* nice. Is there any consensus? gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix