On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:58:36PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
Why not (in both cases)? > 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. 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
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