From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 11:48: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web11008.mail.yahoo.com (web11008.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF6C737B400 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:47:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20020624184757.61593.qmail@web11008.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [198.208.223.35] by web11008.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:47:57 PDT Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:47:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Margie W Subject: Least Painful Upgrade Path To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks, I'm relatively new to BSD, so bear with me here... I have a system built about a month ago with 4.5-STABLE. One of the packages I installed at that time was Apache-2.0.35. I need to upgrade that package to 2.0.39 due to the security bug discovered last week. Is the easiest upgrade path to backup the site content, uninstall the package, and then re-install .39... then recreate the document directories.. and restore the content? Does pkg_add have a command line "upgrade" flag that I can use that automates all this? I've seen people metion CVS, which I'm not very familiar with. From what I've read, that seems the best bet for performing a system-wide code update/upgrade (I think people refer to this as a 'build world', right?)... but overkill for one package. Esp if I have to manually compose a functional Makefile and recompile the whole system. How do your answers change if I said I had a 4.0-STABLE system that I wanted to fully upgrade to 4.6, inc all packages/(custom) kernel. CVSsup? (I do, but it's another system that I can worry about later.) Appreciate any recommendations. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message