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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:59:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Various package/ports problems
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Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I inherited a FreeBSD 4.8 box that had a lot of out of date ports on it. in
> trying to fix some of this, i seem to have screwed up the package or
> ports system in a way i cant manage to fix.


That is really quite an old version of FSBD. If possible, I think you 
would be well served by updating to the latest version - 6.1 - if 
possible.

I may be wrong, but I do not believe that there is a lot of support for 
that version anymore.

I wish i could, but i dont have physical access to the machine - its
in a remote location with no serial console. So if anything gets 
messed up during an upgrade, im in a hell of a lot of trouble.

I dont know when i'll be able to fix this problem so until i can upgrade
the OS i at least want to keep the rest of it up to date.

Jen.

 		
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