Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:59:14PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
>> I wish i could, but i dont have physical access to the machine - its >> in a remote location with no serial console. So if anything gets >> messed up during an upgrade, im in a hell of a lot of trouble. > >> I dont know when i'll be able to fix this problem so until i can upgrade >> the OS i at least want to keep the rest of it up to date. >The packages are compiled for 4.11-stable and do not work >with systems >much older than this (e.g. 4.8, as you discovered). You might >have >more luck compiling from the ports collection, although that >too only >supports 4.11 officially (and modern releases, of course). Thanks, i CAN compile from the ports collection (i never wanted to use packages). Its MANAGING this that i cant do. I can update my ports tree fine, and i can go into ports directory and do a make install, sure. But i cant do portsversion to see what needs updating, and i cant do pkg_info to find out what versions i have. So doing something like upgrading Perl and all it's dependencies--wow what a nightmare that would be. But for another way of fixing the problem, is there any trustworthy way i can do a clean install of 6.1 on a box i dont have access to? I can backup everything offsite and ship a CD or an external drive to the facility, if there is some way i can be assured of getting back into the box after some install procedure is run by a tech there. Jen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
