From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 04:07:35 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 A10461065718 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:07:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from smtp.mel.people.net.au (smtp.mel.people.net.au [218.214.17.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D29588FC13 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:07:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: (qmail 9876 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2008 04:07:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blizzard.dnsalias.org) (218.215.188.65) by smtp.mel.people.net.au with SMTP; 19 Nov 2008 04:07:32 -0000 Received: by blizzard.dnsalias.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F188817067; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:07:32 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:07:32 +1100 From: andrew clarke To: Kelly Martin Message-ID: <20081119040732.GC45210@ozzmosis.com> References: <1338880b0811181547s191b3170nefe5525f112bbcc2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1338880b0811181547s191b3170nefe5525f112bbcc2@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 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 04:07:35 -0000 On Tue 2008-11-18 16:47:20 UTC-0700, Kelly Martin (kellymartin@gmail.com) wrote: > With the release of FreeBSD 6.4 imminent, I'd like to prepare for an > upgrade from FreeBSD 6.2 -> 6.4. Have you considered using freebsd-update? From memory, it supports 6.2. > 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 portupgrade -ai (to upgrade any outdated ports) I don't think there will be any need to rebuild your ports after upgrading from 6.2 to 6.4. (The situation is different if you were going from 6.2 to 7.1 though.) > 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? No, there is only one ports tree shared between all FreeBSD versions. If you already have an updated ports tree with a 6.2 installation, you can keep using that with 6.4 (or even 7.x).