On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:52:59AM +0000, Iain Dooley wrote: > >you're going to keep using new ports/packages then it's recommended > >that you reinstall everything (e.g. with portupgrade) to avoid the > >incompatibilities that can arise if you mix and match 4.x and 5.x > >packages. > > i see, i've just been through a bit of three day nightmare trying to > portupgrade everything (install errors aplenty ... see my email on the > freebsd-questions list). > > maybe i'll hold off for a little while. it's such a pain having to wait for > everything to build from source. kde takes forever, so you leave the house > but when you come back there is one of those configuration options screens > for some obscure package with bunch of options like "Enable Lib GSSD > Compatibility" that mean absolutely nothing to me. meanwhile i can't use my > PC. > > maybe i should be using pkg_update instead?
No, it sounds like you should be using portupgrade -P, i.e. the precompiled packages. Kris
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