Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:17:48 +1000 From: mcwong@ascend.com To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Safe upgrade from 2.2.5 --> 3.2 ? Message-ID: <882567D2.003DC09F.00@colton.ascend.com>
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Ben
One more question before I begin. Since 2.2.5 is a.out only system
and 3.2 will be elf by default, now that I have the 3.2. src what target
should I be building first ? I look at the Makefile explanation but am
not able to follow exactly which one I should run. THere are
buildworld - which is something which I will need since I cannot
afford to overwrite all binaries just yet.
installworld - done after above after certain level of confidence
upgrade - should this be done before or after the above 2 ?
Also, about the mergemaster util. Should this be run before or
after the above build process ? I did try running is *before* the
build (which I am quite reluctant to do for now until I know which
target to build) but got the following error:
.... [snip]
missing: ./tmp (created)
missing: ./tmp/vi.recover (created)
missing: ./yp (created)
if [ -d /var/tmp/temproot/usr/share/locale ] ; then cd
/var/tmp/temproot/usr/
share/locale; for l in da_DK de_AT de_CH de_DE en_AU en_CA en_GB en_US
es_ES
fi_FI fr_BE fr_CA fr_CH fr_FR is_IS it_CH it_IT nl_BE nl_NL no_NO pt_PT
sv_SE;
do if [ -h $l.ISO_8859-1 ]; then rm $l.ISO_8859-1; fi ; done; fi
mtree -deU -f /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /var/tmp/temproot/usr
mtree: line 156: unknown keyword nochange
*** Error code 1
Stop.
*** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to /usr/src/etc and install files to the
temproot environment
At this point I stop and decide to ask before proceeding further.
TIA
MCW
Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> on 08/18/99 11:49:58 PM
To: MC Wong/Ascend/US
cc:
Subject: Re: Safe upgrade from 2.2.5 --> 3.2 ?
mcwong@ascend.com wrote:
> THanks for sharing the experience. When you said you forgot
> to upgrade /etc, what exactly do you mean ? Do you mean
> /etc in 3.2 has changed dramatically ? So what is correct
> procedure for upgrading this /etc ?
Not dramatically, as such. Just that 3.2 has both ELF and a.out binary
formats, while 2.2.5 has just a.out. Because of this, /etc/rc in 3.2 needs
to run ldconfig to configure both formats of libraries. A program called
mergemaster is supposed to be good for upgrading /etc, but I haven't
looked at it much. I think it's in the ports tree, either under sysutils
or misc, IIRC.
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