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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
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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