From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 14:41:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A3616A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from box84.elkhouse.de (box84.elkhouse.de [213.9.1.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93F0D43D48 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:41:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roman@ontographics.com) Received: from 1cust111.vr2.fft4.alter.net ([149.229.88.111] helo=[192.168.1.3]) by box84.elkhouse.de with asmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BX5M2-0001pp-Nt for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 23:38:58 +0200 From: Roman Kennke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-YQxBlU8YO3tZbKKVSKE8" Message-Id: <1086558075.1256.33.camel@moonlight.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 23:41:15 +0200 Subject: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 21:41:31 -0000 --=-YQxBlU8YO3tZbKKVSKE8 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi list, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. I mean, I have a server running, to which I have no physical access. The only way to maintain it, is over SSH. The upgrade instructions in INSTALL.txt suggest putting in the CD, and using sysinstall for a binary upgrade. That is no option for me. What I am looking for is an upgrade method which - can be used over an SSH connection - is not too difficult (like manually placing each piece in the right place) - does not leave old stuff on the HD (like the sysinstall method does, AFAIK) ... to make it short, something like the ports system (especially portupgrade) does with non-system apps would be cool. Is there a way to achieve that? This would be the one bit, which would make me switch to FreeBSD. /Roman --=-YQxBlU8YO3tZbKKVSKE8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAw497bTKKqwP/8kARAoAUAJ9jY8p405CytkPP4IqrgF7gVoYItwCfR+J5 QTchw27b94HZSHtV6t+fhYo= =myVq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-YQxBlU8YO3tZbKKVSKE8--