From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 21:38:41 2004 Return-Path: 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 294BC16A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:38:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp13.wxs.nl (smtp13.wxs.nl [195.121.6.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EBE743D41 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:38:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp13.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I5U00HYHPGERB@smtp13.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:38:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9JLccwr004114; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:38:38 +0200 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by alex.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i9JLcbFf004113; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:38:37 +0200 Content-return: prohibited Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 23:38:37 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <417579FB.6090805@wingfoot.org> To: Glenn Sieb Message-id: <20041019213837.GB822@alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <417579FB.6090805@wingfoot.org> X-Authentication-warning: alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:38:41 -0000 On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:32:59PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote: > I'd like to update a server from 5.1-RELEASE-p10 to 5.3-STABLE... > > What I'm wondering is: Are there any caveats to this upgrade? The anwser to this question is to long for me to write and its written down in the handbook. Please follow the instuctions in this chapter. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html > One of my compadres asked me: > > >How stable is stable? > > > >Isn't this the release where they change some value from an int16 to > >an int32 and upgrading needs to be done with extra caution? (i.e. > >actually go to single user mode even though everyone ignores that > >step). Or was that something else? > > > >Otherwise, I'm all for it. > > > So I just wanted to be sure, so I can plan accordingly... FreeBSD-5 isn't stable jet although the tag exist. 5.3 is more stable than 5.2.1 and this runs fine on my box. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/