From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 6 08:16:44 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C779E16A419 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:16:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from drone2.qsi.net.nz (drone2-svc-skyt.qsi.net.nz [202.89.128.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263AD13C4AA for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:16:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: (qmail 21358 invoked by uid 0); 6 Nov 2007 08:16:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chen.org.nz) ([202.89.146.5]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Nov 2007 08:16:26 -0000 Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BA44D7E862; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:16:25 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:16:25 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: James Message-ID: <20071106081625.GC46733@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20071105135017.76a2c48a@meijome.net> <20071105070952.50ba2f37@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> <000c01c81f93$344c2c40$6543a8c0@DonovansLaptop> <472EEDAD.4060409@gmail.com> <472F6AE2.8080608@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade questions 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: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:16:44 -0000 On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 12:18:01AM +0000, James wrote: [...] > So you don't need to uninstall pkgs before starting to use ports, but you > can't go back once you've started using them. That's not true. Packages are just precompiled ports, and you can mix and match if you know what you're doing. If you keep to one particular update interface that can support using packages, eg: portupgrade, you should be fine. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." - Robert Frost