From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 14:44:34 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 C60E716A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.elvandar.org (cust.94.120.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.94.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0D343D4C for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:44:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from [10.0.3.124] (aragorn.lan.elvandar.intranet [10.0.3.124]) by mail.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D2D10685E; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 23:44:32 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40C39042.4070501@elvandar.org> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 23:44:34 +0200 From: Remko Lodder X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roman Kennke References: <1086558075.1256.33.camel@moonlight.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1086558075.1256.33.camel@moonlight.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at elvandar.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 21:44:34 -0000 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