From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 25 04:28:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89C2E16A400 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:28:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F0243D46 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:28:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.23]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IY900JHJGG3YEF0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:28:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml3so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.147]) by pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IY900AQWGG37K30@pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:28:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IY900MHHGG3SWF0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:28:51 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:28:50 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20060425042014.GA26867@thought.org> To: Gary Kline Message-id: <444DA582.5080308@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <20060424222019.GA24086@thought.org> <20060424223139.GC20219@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060425042014.GA26867@thought.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: When 5.5-stable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:28:52 -0000 Gary Kline wrote: > PS: Any big gotchas in goingfrom 5.5 -> 6.1??? Kris? > Anybody?? -g I haven't upgraded any systems from 5.5 to 6.1, but going from 5.4 to 6.0 there wasn't anything major. The three points which were non-trivial are 1. Addition of _dhcp user and group, 2. ABI differences mean that everything installed from the ports tree should be rebuilt, and 3. Portupgrade gets confused due to database format changes, do you should run `portupgrade -fR portupgrade` before portupgrading anything else. More details: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-5.4-to-6.0/ Colin Percival