I was trying to get grub...

so I did a make install clean in grub...

make complains that I need to upgrade some package...from like 1.2._06 (which I currently have) to 1.2._07....

and of course make can't do it itself because there are a lot of other ports that depends on 1.2._06....

I try make upgrade at the folder for that particular package...same complain...

make deinstall gives me a list of reason (ports) why I shouldn't uninstall.

I am still learning to work with the port system of FreeBSD (which has so far been superior in my opinion to the RPM system of many linux distro.). The question is: how do I upgrade???

First you need to cvsup the ports tree then do this as root:
# portupgrade -aRr

This should fix everything right up, then you just need to add a cvsup script into your cron and another weekly one for portupgrade.

For future reference 99% of port problems are due to the fact your tree is out of date.

Cheers and check this out if you dont know how to cvsup.
http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/...=&postid=57384

In fact, I just did a cvsup prior to this.

I did portupgrade, and actually also did pkgdb -F to fix some stale depedency. But one that's annoying is that my nvidia-driver is complaining for linux_base_7. My currently installed linux-base is 6.1_6 (pkgdb-F reports score of 68%).

I want to deinstalled linux_base-6 and replace it with linux_base-7 (or even -8). Then there are whole lot of other packages that depends on linux_base-6.

What should I do?

Use portupgrade -rf on the linux base. This will upgrade the linux base, and then solve all things that are dependent on the linux base.

This appearantly upgraded/reinstalled my linux_base-6
What should I do if I would like to replace it with linux_base-7 or linux_base-debian?

thankx

...turns out I was able to remove linux_base-6 with pkg_delete...I am surprise that there aren't any complain about other packages that dep. on it...

also use pkgdb -Uu after cvsup'ing your ports to make sure your ports index db is up to date with your new ports tree. Dont know if that will help anything, but I have read to do this after a new ports cvsup.