Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 07:17:27AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, 1/ backing up the hacked [mailman] files and restoring them later (but I will overwrite the newer files with older ones perhaps breaking something). 2/ making them read only (but the end result will be the same

Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear all, I am now full into planning the 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE upgrade. I know that at the end of the day it will also mean upgrading all ports (portupgrade -af). I have one port - mailman - which I have customized a lot and do not really want to upgrade it as it will most likely mean I

Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I am now full into planning the 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE upgrade. I know that at the end of the day it will also mean upgrading all ports (portupgrade -af). I have one port - mailman - which I have customized a lot and do not really want to upgrade it as

Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:03:02PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I am now full into planning the 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE upgrade. I know that at the end of the day it will also mean upgrading all ports (portupgrade -af). Not necessarily. Upgrading all ports is only mandatory

Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: 1/ backing up the hacked [mailman] files and restoring them later (but I will overwrite the newer files with older ones perhaps breaking something). 2/ making them read only (but the end result will be the same and upgrading as root I will

Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, 1/ backing up the hacked [mailman] files and restoring them later (but I will overwrite the newer files with older ones perhaps breaking something). 2/ making them read only (but the end result will be the same and upgrading as root I will overwrite them anyway). Keep in mind