From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 22:43:31 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 776F737B405 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 22:43:27 -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 g336cXd39939; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 22:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 22:38:33 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Kent Stewart Cc: Fernan Aguero , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: best path from 4.3 to 4.5? In-Reply-To: <3CAA8E85.7000104@owt.com> 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, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > 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 > Good point. I assume /usr/src/UPGRADING tells you to create these users in /etc/groups and /etc/master.passwd, then, before doing the installworld. I already have these users (from upgrading /etc) although not the new sendmail. 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