Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:28:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian Fisk <bfisk@godzilla.lazerlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading from2.1.5-RELEASE to 2.2.2-STABLE Message-ID: <19970926172826.42458@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970925134415.6348A-100000@godzilla.lazerlink.com>; from Brian Fisk on Thu, Sep 25, 1997 at 01:46:56PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970925134415.6348A-100000@godzilla.lazerlink.com>
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On Thu, Sep 25, 1997 at 01:46:56PM -0400, Brian Fisk wrote: > > Hello. My primary web server is running 2.1.5 and I need to upgrade it. > I have all of the /usr/src for 2.2.2-stable. If I just rm the old src and > put the new in and then make world and recompile, what are the chances of > messing something up? I don't suppose there's that much danger. > How big is the chance that things may not work? I would expect that it should run OK. You may have to repeat parts of the 'make world'. > I know that 2.1.5 has no /etc/rc.conf and I am sure there is other > things. That's not as important as it sounds. I'm running 3.0-CURRENT on my machine, which I've upgraded fairly regularly from 2.0.5, and I still have the old sysconfig file in there. There is a danger, of course, that you will have the same "problem": it works, but it's not quite the way it would have been if you had installed it directly. You could probably install all the /etc files as well, but I don't know of any good automated way of updating them. I certainly wouldn't try to run this on a machine which is in constant use by others. Greg
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