From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 26 08:12:39 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D9B416A421 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:12:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (smtp5-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFDBF13C461 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:12:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3713B7D9E; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:12:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (tataz.chchile.org [82.233.239.98]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 181806183; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:12:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (unknown [192.168.1.25]) by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585699B497; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:13:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2F0F5405B; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:13:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:13:25 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Rene Ladan Message-ID: <20070726081324.GA2503@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <8cdf6c720707070710k2b7e030v37683e460d983bf9@mail.gmail.com> <20070708111105.C9997@fledge.watson.org> <20070708132545.5604cbe9.ubm@u-boot-man.de> <4690CFAA.30004@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4690CFAA.30004@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Marc UBM Bocklet Subject: Re: status of 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:12:39 -0000 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 >