> > In theory, your old software should run > fine, even with a new world and kernel, although > a few things may need slight reconfiguration > due to changed device/driver names, etc. Well, that's sort of what I was thinking too. But clearly some X or keyboard thing wasn't happy. > But it does probably make sense to update everything. Right. And a "pkgdb -f" suggested there were some updates that could be made anyway.... > /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade is your friend > here: > $ portupgrade -af --batch Aha! --batch That seems like the ticket! Mentioning that on the "portupgrade -a" command would have been stellar! I should interrupt this "portupgrade" to add the --batch flag.... > shouldn't take more than a day or two, depending > on what you have installed. Only X.org, Gnome, Gnome-friends, Firefox and friends, the entire XML series, PDF, and emacsen, GCC, etc. On a 1.0GHz box with a gig of memory, what?, maybe two days. > Caveat: If you update anything, you'll probably > have to update everything. Otherwise, you'll > end up with some things linked against old libc > and others linked against new libc, which breaks > badly. Yeah, familiar with that one! Thanks! jdlReceived on Sun May 10 2009 - 22:37:04 UTC
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