On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 06:00:25PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:20:27PM +0000, J. Altman wrote: > > Greetings... > > > > I am looking at upgrading to 8.1 from 8.0 on an AMD64. > > In case you're upgrading from source, do not forget to delete the > archivers/xz port before doing a buildworld, else buildworld will > fail.
Yikes; thanks for the heads up. I do upgrade from source. > I would advise you to use portmaster; > > 1) portmaster -o lang/perl5.12 lang/perl5.10 > 2) portmaster p5- > > That worked for me. Hmm...well, I've used portupgrade since 4.3, and have only wondered if switching is a good thing. I've not made time to learn that process. > If you are running a GENERIC kernel, you could use > freebsd-update. That is probably the fastest. My kernel is not GENERIC; so I'll just do a bunch of updates. Thanks for the help, and best regards, Joe _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"