From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 21:10:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C88C837B430 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:10:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA20597; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:09:25 -0800 Message-ID: <3CAA8E85.7000104@owt.com> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 21:09:25 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Fernan Aguero , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: best path from 4.3 to 4.5? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Annelise Anderson wrote: > 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). This isn't true since they upgraded sendmail. There are two users that have to be on your system for an installworld of recent versions of 4.5-stable for it to work. The users are smmsp and mailnull. There are a number of messages on this in -stable. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message