Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 23:44:34 +0200 From: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> To: Roman Kennke <roman@ontographics.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release Message-ID: <40C39042.4070501@elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <1086558075.1256.33.camel@moonlight.localdomain> References: <1086558075.1256.33.camel@moonlight.localdomain>
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Hey Roman, Roman Kennke wrote: > 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. I use CVSup to update my system and then rebuild as described in the /usr/src/Makefile file, (yeah yeah there is a UPDATING file on should follow), the only thing that i am not doing, since i dont have physical access as well, is boot into single user mode and run mergemaster, mostly i am keen of knowing what changes , so far on my 5.x servers there weren't any issue's requiring mergemaster to run. Apart from that i updated my systems many times, without being in single user mode, with an ssh connection. Hope this helps a bit.. ow yeah /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui is where the cvsup lives :) Cheers > > Is there a way to achieve that? This would be the one bit, which would > make me switch to FreeBSD. > > /Roman > -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene
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