Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:13:25 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Marc UBM Bocklet <ubm@u-boot-man.de> Subject: Re: status of 7.0 Message-ID: <20070726081324.GA2503@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <4690CFAA.30004@gmail.com> References: <8cdf6c720707070710k2b7e030v37683e460d983bf9@mail.gmail.com> <20070708111105.C9997@fledge.watson.org> <20070708132545.5604cbe9.ubm@u-boot-man.de> <4690CFAA.30004@gmail.com>
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Hi Marc, On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 01:51:06PM +0200, Rene Ladan wrote: > Marc UBM Bocklet schreef: > > > > > > I'd like to do some testing, but I'm a little bit afraid of the upgrade > > procedure 6.2-stable to -current. Is it possible to do a simple upgrade > > if I follow the guidelines in UPGRADE or are there any hidden caveats? > > (like "you've to recompile all installed ports", etc. :-)) > > > [...don't try this on a production box...] > > Just following the procedure and the changelog entries in > /usr/src/UPDATING should do the job. It's probably best to cvsup into a > new directory and clean /usr/obj before beginning the update. That's > how I updated from RELENG_6 to HEAD back in November 2006. > > Since we have a misc/compat6x port and a COMPAT_FREEBSD6 kernel > configuaration option, it shouldn't be necessary to rebuild all your > ports. I'd like to add that whenever I performed an upgrade between two FreeBSD major branch I found easier to use sysutils/etcmerge than mergemaster(8) to upgrade /etc, as the former is far more automated and prevents a lot of work due to the huge number of changes to merge. Important note (also explained in the "ROUGH DESCRIPTION OF USE" part of etcmerge manpage): 1) Make sure your current /etc is up-to-date (IOW run mergemaster(8)) WRT your current RELENG_6 source tree; 2) Follow etcmerge manpage to get /var/db/etc corresponding to the _stock_ /etc directory from your source tree. Best regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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