Updating Apache 2.0.55 to 2.2.0

Vasil Dimov vd at datamax.bg
Mon Dec 5 10:46:20 PST 2005


On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 12:16:22PM -0600, Josh Tolbert wrote:
> portupgrade has never failed me. One of portupgrade's best-kept secrets (for
> those that don't read the man page, anyway) is the -o flag. It's generally as
> easy as 'portupgrade -o www/apache2 www/apache22'. Of course, you might want
> to see if you need any flags in the apache22 Makefile and season portupgrad to
> taste with -m.
> 

I would just add that you should better backup the existing apache
version with pkg_create -b, prior running portupgrade -o (or portmanager).
This will help you to quickly restore the working apache version (2.0)
in case the new one has run-time problems.

Good Luck!

-- 
Vasil Dimov
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