Downtime – Packages vs Ports

Website has been down a few days as been very busy, so tried to rely on package updates rather than building from ports to keep everything patched as Perl and Python going thru the ‘Flavour’ splitting and packages where supposed to be easier.    To cut a long story short, it also downgraded my PHP version and dropped the Database support module in the process.  So in order to get the website back up I have had to manually install the port for the DB support, mixing packages and ports which is not a good idea.   At least the site is up and running again and I shall stick to ports in the future to ensure the latest patches are always applied.