On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 04:19:12AM +0200, Robert Urban wrote:

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> 	# pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends

>

> What do I need to do about the numerous ports I built and installed?  Do

> they need to be updated manually?

The packages you built manually, assuming you used a virgin ports tree,

are no different from the distributed packages.
You can update safely from our tree. Things may fail if you run into

a package that's not distributed (java comes to mind), but it will fail

decently, and you can update the required packages manually, then proceed

with update.
You can also set FETCH_PACKAGES to Yes and update using the ports tree.
Or even add a SRC: element to your PKG_PATH as a fallback.
> Also, I'm currently running 4.1, and would like to get to 4.3.  I guess I

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> will need to do this in two hops.  Can I postpone package updating until

> I've finished updating the OS to 4.3?

You can skip one release, the ports tree tools can deal with old stuff

without any issue.