Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....

2004-01-26 Thread Dave Cantrell
On Wed November 26 2003 23:41, Dragoncrest wrote: > Mergemaster is definately one way to do it, but I prefer > Portupgrade. It's much simpler as far as I'm concerned and does as good a > job as mergemaster with less thinking involved on the part of the user. :) > > At 12:43 AM 11/20/0

Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....

2003-11-27 Thread Mark Weinem
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Dragoncrest wrote: > Mergemaster is definately one way to do it, but I prefer > Portupgrade. It's much simpler as far as I'm concerned and > does as good a job as mergemaster with less thinking involved > on the part of the user. :) Confusion

Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....

2003-11-26 Thread Dragoncrest
Mergemaster is definately one way to do it, but I prefer Portupgrade. It's much simpler as far as I'm concerned and does as good a job as mergemaster with less thinking involved on the part of the user. :) Just CVsup your ports, then do "portupgrade -r -all", then walk away an

Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....

2003-11-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote: > if I upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9, will I also have to upgrade (by whatever > method) the applications running on the box? I.e. those that are not > part of the src tree? On the whole... no. But that doesn't mean you won't run into

Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....

2003-11-19 Thread paul van den bergen
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:24 am, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:13:29AM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote: > > is there a method (other than de-installing all pkgs and reisntalling) > > to upgrade the ports or packages appropriately from 4.8 to 4.9? > > Not quite sure I fully unders

Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....

2003-11-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:13:29AM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote: > is there a method (other than de-installing all pkgs and reisntalling) > to upgrade the ports or packages appropriately from 4.8 to 4.9? Not quite sure I fully understand, but you might want to take a look at portupgrade (portu