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From: Kurt Jaeger <lists@complx.LF.net>
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Hi!

> 	One of the things that seems to be very vague to me is the FreeBSD
> upgrade procedure.  I see that I can do a binary upgrade off the cd's, but
> I'm more curious about the source upgrade procedure.  Does it do a
> through job (i.e. does it remove older non-existent binaries when
> upgrading)?

No, it does not remove older binaries.

>  Or should I only upgrade like that once or twice and do a
> fresh install after like the 3rd time?

I upgraded via source from 4.x to 6.x and old files do not cause problems.

> Also, is it a good idea to have
> one server that has CVSup running on the src and ports dir and then have
> all the other servers nfs mount those directories and do all the upgrades
> off of the one machines src and port dirs?

This is how it can be done, yes.

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