Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 17:58:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Various package/ports problems Message-ID: <20060904005836.59531.qmail@web53402.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060831035416.GA95969@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> 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
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