Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:08:22 +0100 From: Holger Kipp <hk@alogis.com> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: stable@museum.rain.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New ports on older stable (4.11) Message-ID: <20060302130822.GA95048@intserv.int1.b.intern> In-Reply-To: <E1FEmBU-000F31-7o@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <20060302041631.GA27435@ns.museum.rain.com> <E1FEmBU-000F31-7o@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 11:41:28AM +0000, Pete French wrote: > > I still share a part of your trepidation about getting oneself into > > a bind with uncooperative dependencies, etc. However, I have had > > more success than I would have imagined. > > Thats good to hear. What I am intending to do is to backup the > whole ports tree, try and do the upgrade, and if it doesnt work > then just go and rebuild all the old ones instead. if you have the place to spare you might want to do this inside a chroot-environment - so if everything goes as expected, you have all the ports available as packages already, and if it doesn't you don't have to revert everything again... Regards, Holger Kipphome | help
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