On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Ersin Akinci <ersin.aki...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But you wrote that you upgraded ports from release to current. Did you
>> upgrade your system to current too?
>>
>> Every time use mirrors for packages, it saves bandwidth and you can
>> have couple of them in PKG_PATH.
>
> Quoth section 15 of the FAQ: "Do NOT check out a -current ports tree
> and expect it to work on a -release or -stable system. This is one of
> the most common errors and you will irritate people when you ask for
> help about why "nothing seems to work!""
>
> D'oh! B Sorry, I misread that originally, and I had thought that it was
> saying that we shouldn't mix different branches of ports together, not
> different branches of ports and the system. B Indeed, that exactly what
> I've done.
>
> My apologies, a classic RTFM.

You found that so no problem ;-) Now you can do rm -rf /usr/ports and
then unpack ports.tar.gz for 4.8 release again

>
> -Ersin
>
>
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>
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