From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 20: 0:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB75837B41B for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:00:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g333xad39478; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:59:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:59:36 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Fernan Aguero Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: best path from 4.3 to 4.5? In-Reply-To: <20020402194838.B26637@iib.unsam.edu.ar> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Fernan Aguero wrote: > I'm planning an upgrade from 4.3 (actually RELENG_4_3) to 4.5. > > I have the 4.5-install CD, though I've never made an upgrade using > /stand/sysinstall. > So my plan would be to cvsup and synchronize my sources and then > remake the world and kernel. > > Now, is there any impediment in going directly from 4.3 to RELENG_4_5 > or should I do RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE (or worse yet, 4.4) first and then > go to RELENG_4_5? > I went from a 4.0-STABLE to 4.5-STABLE without any problems except forgetting to delete the symbolic links from softupdates (which are no longer needed) before I cvsupped. I think you can go pretty much anywhere along the 4 branch without trouble if you follow the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. You might want to install the new make.conf after you cvsup and edit it, but other than that, leave upgrading of /etc until after installworld (then you can do it with mergemaster). Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message