From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 6 19:25:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5B61065670 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:25:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B7588FC12 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:25:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o16J0Jxp082553 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 13:00:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4B6DBC47.8050900@tundraware.com> Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:00:23 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]); Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:00:19 -0600 (CST) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: o16J0Jxp082553 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Clarification Of In Place Upgrade Process 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: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:25:20 -0000 When migrating from 6.x to 7.x and to do system refreshes within a given release branch, I did/do this: - Get sources - mergemaster -i - make buildworld buildkernel - go single user - make installworld installkernel - reboot I now wish to do the same to get to the 8.x branch, BUT ... somewhere on USENET, someone commented that you have to also reinstall/rebuild all the packages/ports when you do this. This was news to me. Is there some reason the entire application base has to be reinstalled when moving to a new branch? If so, has this always been the case or is it new for 8.x? My 6.x -> 7.x upgrade went flawlessly using the method above without touching the ports/packages tree. TIA, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/