> > 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...

Yes I'd come to that conclusion. Actually I think I already have
amanda in my /configs tree - so that I could install it on my other
i386 boxen.

I'll see how the build goes on too (too.quick.com.au :-)
and take it from there.

--sjg