From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 16:20:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02FA16A41F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:20:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8E143D46 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:20:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Received: from [204.147.87.125] (borg.iaces.com [204.147.87.125]) (authenticated bits=0) by iaces.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jAAGK2UF024712 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:20:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Message-ID: <43737333.4070306@iaces.com> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:20:03 -0600 From: "Paul T. Root" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete French References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, andreas.nemeth@aporem.net Subject: Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:20:18 -0000 How is this different from a fresh install? Except for a very limited amount in config files, which would be easier to save and restore. And home directories. Again, save and restore. Pete French wrote: > *********************** > This message has been scanned by the InterScan for CSC-SSM and found to be free of known security risks. > ***********-*********** > > > >>You don't have to remove the ports prior to upgrading. Just recompile them >>later. > > > Why would I want to do that though ? It gives me no advantages, and some > serious disadvantages (especially if I am doing this on a 'live' system). > Much easier to delete everything prior to the upgrade, and then I know that > the machine is just the base system, and that none of my users are running > apache, or pine, or exim or whatever - because I deleted them :-). Standard > practice for me, even when going from one minor release to the next... > > -pcf. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- ______ Paul T. Root / _ \ 1977 MGB / /|| \\ ||\/ || _ | || || || \ ||__// \______/