Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:47:12 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <monkey@crackula.com> To: Margie W <walemom@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Least Painful Upgrade Path Message-ID: <20020624114712.A475@crackula.com> In-Reply-To: <20020624184757.61593.qmail@web11008.mail.yahoo.com>; from walemom@yahoo.com on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:47:57AM -0700 References: <20020624184757.61593.qmail@web11008.mail.yahoo.com>
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# cd /usr/ports/sysinstall/portupgrade # make install clean # portupgrade -v apache-2\* now, if you made your own VirtualHosts, and made your own separate directories (i.e. you didn't put all your pages under /usr/local/www/data) then you won't need to rebuild your httpd.conf or anything; it will all work fine. if you DID put your stuff under /usr/local/www/data then you will have to backup your data, but again the httpd.conf should remain undamaged. no reason not to back it up though ::) -Adam Margie W took 1.3K on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:47:57AM -0700 to say: > 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 -- "I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see I am serious!" -Mr. Sparkle Adam Weinberger monkey@crackula.com http://www.crackula.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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