On Thursday 10 November 2005 12:27, Pete French wrote: > Thanks for all the comments - it sounds like it's a pretty safe thing to > do. I have one more question though - when I upgrade a machine this way I > will remove all the ports first, so it is just back to the basic system. > But Perl is now a port - should I remove this, or should I leave it alone, > i.e. is it required for the build process ?
You don't have to remove the ports prior to upgrading. Just recompile them later. A "portupgrade -fa" will do the trick. I do this port-rebuild remotely using "screen" thus in case of a lost connection I can reconnect to the portupgrade output. In this case I don't upgrade screen and the command is like "portupgrade -fpa -x screen" > cheers, > > -pcf. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
