"Simon J. Gerraty" wrote:

> > I believe I've always deinstalled the amanda pkg before recompiling it.
> 
> Oh?  Isn't that rather dangerous?  I mean if the new build fails,
> you'd be unable to do backups until it was sorted out.

Although it doesn't help right now, maybe it's an idea to do a "make
package" of ``important'' packages when you build them, so you can just
pkg_add it if things go bad when you try to update them later on...

Simon.