From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 7 17:57:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E014616A403 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:57:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bj@cold.dk) Received: from frontend1.kadnet.dk (frontend1.kadnet.dk [83.221.137.240]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F48C13C428 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:57:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bj@cold.dk) Received: (qmail 74822 invoked by uid 89); 7 Mar 2007 17:06:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.151?) (83.221.137.38) by frontend1.kadnet.dk with SMTP; 7 Mar 2007 17:06:07 -0000 Message-ID: <45EEF71A.2060800@cold.dk> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:32:10 +0100 From: Brian Josefsen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061101) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1173186432.20605.10.camel@localhost> <20070307050719.M2006@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <20070307050719.M2006@pukruppa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: upgrade, portupgrade or not ? 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, 07 Mar 2007 17:57:49 -0000 P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, jbousseau wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I actually got a FreeBSD 5.4 for Mail server ( postfix+imp+horde) , and >> DNS server with bind. >> I really hesitate to upgrade my ports and my BSD because the >> configuration of IMP+horde+php is a real mess. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> What are your advices about it ? >> >> Pls notice i'm not a Bsd specialist. Thanx > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Under these special circumstances: > Don't mess around with your running system. > Do a completely fresh install on an extra machine > and exchange the old one, when the new is up and > running. Or upgrade base to 5.5 so you wont fall to much behind the supported releases, it shouldn't affect your ports or installed application, and then setup a jail and slowly migrate while you do continously testing, it always works for me. In general it's always getting very suddenly messy when your fall way behind releases. -- Best regards Brian Josefsen