Various package/ports problems

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On Monday 28 August 2006 23:59, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> Gerard Seibert <gerard at seibercom.net> wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Dr. 
Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I inherited a FreeBSD 4.8 box that had a lot of out of date ports on it.
> > in trying to fix some of this, i seem to have screwed up the package or
> > ports system in a way i cant manage to fix.
>
> That is really quite an old version of FSBD. If possible, I think you
> would be well served by updating to the latest version - 6.1 - if
> possible.
>
> I may be wrong, but I do not believe that there is a lot of support for
> that version anymore.
>

There is some support...

> I wish i could, but i dont have physical access to the machine - its
> in a remote location with no serial console. So if anything gets
> messed up during an upgrade, im in a hell of a lot of trouble.
>

I suppose, you can update to 4.11-STABLE without physical access
to the machine. I suppose it will work. Then you could use binary
packages(pkg_add -r something). Packages are built for 4-STABLE.
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/

> I dont know when i'll be able to fix this problem so until i can upgrade
> the OS i at least want to keep the rest of it up to date.

Why don't you use cvs to get your ports tree up to date?
and then build everything you want?

>
> Jen.
>
>
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