FreeBSD binary upgrades

Finally it looks like there will be a binary upgrade possibility in FreeBSD even for major versions going from 6.x to 7.x. Very cool work, I will definately test it!

An interesting side notes is the recommended method for portupgrade of all ports, it deals with the ruby and ruby18-dbd problems we all know:

Using portupgrade to rebuild everything is a bit tricky since it can get a bit confused when upgrading the programs it uses (ruby and ruby18-bdb), but the following procedure should work:
# portsnap -I update
# portupgrade -f ruby
...
# rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db
# portupgrade -f ruby18-bdb
...
# rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db /usr/ports/INDEX-*.db
# portupgrade -af