From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 5 07:33:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB4216A401 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 07:33:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from strange.daemonsecurity.com (59.Red-81-33-11.staticIP.rima-tde.net [81.33.11.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB58A43D46 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 07:33:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [172.24.8.84] (generic.atosorigin.es [212.170.156.200]) by strange.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D532E041; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 09:33:08 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <443372A5.1040803@locolomo.org> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:32:53 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060118) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: robert@letsget.bz References: <4433009B.60801@letsget.bz> In-Reply-To: <4433009B.60801@letsget.bz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question bout migrating from 4.X tree to 5.x or even 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 07:33:03 -0000 Robert Yoon wrote: > I am planning on upgrading from the 4.x tree to the 6.x tree. > I have been reading online and have found little or no reference > information. I think a lot of stuff was written when 5.3 was announced, that was when 5.x branch was declared "stable" IIRC. > I would like to actually do this without a make world scenario, and have > read some info bout booting off a usb device with 6.0 on it and copying > stuff over. > Anyone know of or heard bout this by any chance? If you have an extra machine or can afford the downtime, then you might save yourself a lot of work by simply doing a clean install this time. IIRC this was the "recomended method" for upgrading 4.x to 5.x. Part the reason I guess is that there has been a lot of reorganizing so building and installing from src may leave a lot of junk around. Recently make targets, "delete-old" and "delete-old-libs", have been added but I'm not sure if that would clean up after 4.x. > Also what recommendations would you make if you were to upgrade from 4.x > tree to 5 or 6? I think the major jump is going from 4.x to 5.x, I have since 5.x made incremental upgrades to 6.x without any problems. So, you might as well go straight to 6.x and skip 5.x entirely. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9