> 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. > Go slow, read Makefiles first, that sort of thing. You can probably > install portupgrade without too much trouble, as it doesn't have a lot Never used portupgrade and am not really in the mood for investigating exciting new software at the same time as the upgrade. My normal procedure is to backup the config files and then delete every single port on the system, until I get nothing out of pkg_info. Then start re-installing one by one, starting with the mail system and finishing woth the webserver. > Just for prurient interest, would you care to post your pkg_info? If > you have portupgrade installed, or can install it, how about the output > from "portupgrade -na" also. Sure, see the end of this email.... We have two things not included - which are mailman and python. I'd love those to be from ports, but the guy who originally installed them did them from the tarfiles. As a result puthon seems to use a different encryption to the one in prst, so if I move to using python from ports then none of the passwords work. This has been bugging me since FreeBSD 3, so any suggestions there would be welcome. Meanwhile heres the pkg_info for those interested... -pete. BitchX-1.1 "An alternative ircII color client with optional GTK/GNOME analog-5.32_3,1 An extremely fast program for analysing WWW logfiles apache-1.3.33_1 The extremely popular Apache http server. 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