From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 00:15:02 2008 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 8F31B1065674 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:15:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kellymartin@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5818FC19 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:15:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kellymartin@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so1275511eyi.7 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:15:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=yZqLymIwurzhj5E3b4PJYzc+9Awq5zkVmX6F4eIlgUo=; b=ML7c/P8GY0ADuNFfZK7yF/SqEkX8nvl9KdYe0eHeNXGzQXlgvp0Y3nZK46WRgGoa2t NBEJdeoCfGz8p2ruOhcBykzH+/2WzOKXj6Sy47kMKvChXMmk1D0Y1A2XJjRghMZstd5u ArYqfs5KbdGpKFRjxouQZZTjPwpVQjTI+HNmY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=fF8J1AJcFc5X5bp0+NLI4CEJ6YaQckNDmOLN2DXmsWbpHCnmD0yux2Ajr5rndQtSzQ dgnP0lpNpNkamwoop3Nkk93338c68aCz6ibpO0FwuOpqteHiM8iW+9ZRRiuiJtJrvIkJ 8OxzcqXGXhtLHCKlx2d8758BjtynRP2Qwf61s= Received: by 10.103.131.18 with SMTP id i18mr148511mun.120.1227052040075; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:47:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.181.1 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:47:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1338880b0811181547s191b3170nefe5525f112bbcc2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:47:20 -0700 From: "Kelly Martin" To: "FreeBSD Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: preparing for an upgrade 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: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:15:02 -0000 With the release of FreeBSD 6.4 imminent, I'd like to prepare for an upgrade from FreeBSD 6.2 -> 6.4. Please excuse my ignorance but in my mind here's what I plan to do when it's available: 1. install / run the upgrade script using CD-ROM media to a 6.4 GENERIC kernel, reboot 2. customize the kernel to my hardware (like I did in 6.2), reboot 3. portsnap fetch update (to get the latest ports tree for 6.4) 4. portupgrade -ai (to upgrade any outdated ports) Will this work? I'm a little confused about different versions of the ports tree. What I mean is, I keep updating my FreeBSD 6.2 ports tree and have never had any problems... it just works. I'm assuming the 6.4 ports tree is a little different and specific to 6.4? The port system is **so much better** than using ports on my OpenBSD systems! thanks, kelly