From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 13 16:12:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8608D15368 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:12:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18666; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:12:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:12:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Damien Tougas Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My first successful upgrade... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Damien Tougas wrote: > Yeah! Congrats. :) > 1- If I had originally installed ports under the 3.1 system, do I need to > recompile them > under 3.2? They seem to work fine so far. If they work fine, then you don't need to recompile them. If you have some mission critical stuff that you want to run at peak efficiency (or anything compiled -static) then it wouldn't hurt to recompile them so that they get linked against the new libraries. > 2- How often is reasonable to upgrade to the latest version of stable? I think that your reasoning on this is solid. You generally want to upgrade if there is a new feature you need, bug you need fixed, or an urgent security problem. In general once per release cycle is good enough to keep you up to date, especially on a production machine. Never upgrade right before, or right after a release since things tend to get stuffed in at the last minute, then fixed up. A few weeks after a release is usually good, watch the -stable list. > 3- When is it better to do a clean install rather than CVSup and make world? When you are upgrading from one branch to another (say, 2.2.8 to 3.x), although I did make worlds on those too. If there is any fear that a remote upgrade won't work, if you need to wipe the disk and start over.... etc. In general there is no difference in the outcome between one method or the other, except perhaps whatever residual benefit you get from compiling the sources on the same machine that they will be running on during a make world. Hope this helps, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message