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 Kipp _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"