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Am 21.08.2014 um 18:28 schrieb Bryan Drewery:
> On 8/21/2014 10:56 AM, Matthias Andree wrote:
>> Author: mandree
>> Date: Thu Aug 21 15:56:14 2014
>> New Revision: 365566
>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/365566
>> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r365566/
>>
>> Log:
>>   Add a BerkeleyDB upgrade helper script in preparation of 4...4.7 removal.
> 
> Thanks for making things simpler.
> 
> <joke> We now have a script to run another script that was made to make
> using ports simpler.

The point is to abstract away the chaotic (miniscule input difference,
major difference in result) differences along the various dimensions of
port upgrading tools and local database management tools.

I don't think a textual description for UPDATING would have been much
shorter and the whole migration will look scary enough to users with the
around-ten-step upgrade...

And people WILL have multiple db4* versions on their typical system
unless they manipulated /etc/make.conf.