upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....

[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 and let it run.  If you want to do a single port, just do "portupgrade 
-r portname"

         Best of luck.  :)

At 12:43 AM 11/20/03 +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote:
>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 problems.
>You can resolve those when you get there though ;)
>
> > for that matter, am I likely to encounter any issues with
> > configuration files?  /etc/... and /usr/local/etc/... ???
>
>Try man mergemaster.
>
>   Best wishes,
>
>-lewiz.
>
>--
>I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.  --Bob Dylan, 1964.
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