There were several vital changes and updates related to PHP, php-extensions and php5-* dependency packages thus I couldn’t expect the upgrades to be a piece of cake. In fact, famous *** Error code 1 showed up without much delay even this time I checked /usr/ports/UPDATING (along with the lessons I took from apache22 upgrade) before doing anything and followed the instructions in “20100409″ before running the portupgrade utility on my FreeBSD 8.0 box;

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