Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 21:16:51 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> Cc: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Various package/ports problems Message-ID: <20060904011651.GA8058@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060904005836.59531.qmail@web53402.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060831035416.GA95969@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060904005836.59531.qmail@web53402.mail.yahoo.com>
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--yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:58:36PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:59:= 14PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >=20 > >> 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=20 > >> messed up during an upgrade, im in a hell of a lot of trouble. > >=20 > >> I dont know when i'll be able to fix this problem so until i can upgra= de > >> the OS i at least want to keep the rest of it up to date. >=20 > >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. >=20 > 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 Why not (in both cases)? > upgrading Perl and all it's dependencies--wow what a nightmare that > would be. >=20 > 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. You can do an 'upgrade install' from the install media...it's something you should definitely practise on a local system first though (not because it's hard, but so you know what you're doing). Kris --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE+36DWry0BWjoQKURAisbAKCW6lZCfYfMAZos5/2ZV/i8b7HLEQCglMpH Q53AVoTu+dRU1jxPSVqlgxE= =g2kK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--
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