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.

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> Also, I'm currently running 4.1, and would like to get to 4.3.  I guess I 
> 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.