From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 00:58:37 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 C4C4516A4DE for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 00:58:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bg271828@yahoo.com) Received: from web53402.mail.yahoo.com (web53402.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.37.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D04343D45 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 00:58:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bg271828@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 59533 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Sep 2006 00:58:36 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=GdFQ00/X2CVhpP8ryvIxcmdJozSF5k0jkXKIlnf4X2LVIE/7B4DdN29Lt7MyR/8wj+8XwPkomGa0GWhvgAvdliNll59CqXCF9shb1tlB1H3S5wWcf+ALjpWCcUyd3xQlQf8rwIljntOhY5lMiDUtuXc9QSeD+BjchJtqtvfz4GA= ; Message-ID: <20060904005836.59531.qmail@web53402.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [166.84.1.2] by web53402.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:58:36 PDT Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 17:58:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20060831035416.GA95969@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Gerard Seibert , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Various package/ports problems 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: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 00:58:37 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:59:14PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >> 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. >The packages are compiled for 4.11-stable and do not work >with systems >much older than this (e.g. 4.8, as you discovered). You might >have >more luck compiling from the ports collection, although that >too only >supports 4.11 officially (and modern releases, of course). Thanks, i CAN compile from the ports collection (i never wanted to use packages). Its MANAGING this that i cant do. I can update my ports tree fine, and i can go into ports directory and do a make install, sure. But i cant do portsversion to see what needs updating, and i cant do pkg_info to find out what versions i have. So doing something like upgrading Perl and all it's dependencies--wow what a nightmare that would be. But for another way of fixing the problem, is there any trustworthy way i can do a clean install of 6.1 on a box i dont have access to? I can backup everything offsite and ship a CD or an external drive to the facility, if there is some way i can be assured of getting back into the box after some install procedure is run by a tech there. Jen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com