On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 04:19:12AM +0200, Robert Urban wrote: > # pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends > > What do I need to do about the numerous ports I built and installed? Do > they need to be updated manually?
The packages you built manually, assuming you used a virgin ports tree, are no different from the distributed packages. You can update safely from our tree. Things may fail if you run into a package that's not distributed (java comes to mind), but it will fail decently, and you can update the required packages manually, then proceed with update. You can also set FETCH_PACKAGES to Yes and update using the ports tree. Or even add a SRC: element to your PKG_PATH as a fallback. > Also, I'm currently running 4.1, and would like to get to 4.3. I guess I > will need to do this in two hops. Can I postpone package updating until > I've finished updating the OS to 4.3? You can skip one release, the ports tree tools can deal with old stuff without any issue.
