From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 28 17:58:20 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 7804F106566C for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:58:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410BD8FC22 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:58:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so3956075waf.3 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:58:19 -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:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=h+JHxiEK8Tm0wJfxfIg8aorwo66cmGmRKLJXJ38saaU=; b=Hu6JCRXl6E9PUjEp/u/TNDqr41xtgWsjy0KBvTektreG5RsN3b4w0aSc/mPIMylhnXSXej7/VQKJBbSCRG6ZnKl0EHxi0DmlblVZXy252gY7BCaq+RGCnzC/bHpkxvwYElD1PUkPXx5xjYX0QRVVozihc1DUapNHj3Ahij3IaQE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Rmb0CzIsraB3lywTC6uYhMlPpBbK4bQ3f60JvW4HvGiXtZxIkPUKGR/djZLB6Zb8iZbFZn5T9g4mUVkLfQGCeqbOl+HBTOmAjGGlMuckPKNmeLhQS0QtRtVskHD+UBWbn2yzs/8mP91Rd8qE0oUZ3FNij9FTNaTEV0G7ylqLyyk= Received: by 10.114.198.1 with SMTP id v1mr9820570waf.89.1204221499892; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:58:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.13.16 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:58:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8d23ec860802280958v2dae110av11d7277f8bb6e6fa@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:58:19 -0500 From: Schiz0 To: "Lowell Gilbert" In-Reply-To: <44y79555on.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <0AAFAC92-CF83-42CC-A148-FB24261A4556@poughkeepsieschools.org> <47C6EE06.4010403@bsdforen.de> <44y79555on.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: "B. Cook" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7 from 6.3 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: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:58:20 -0000 On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Dominic Fandrey writes: > > > B. Cook wrote: > >> Hello All, > >> > >> I was going to try and update a box from 6.3 to 7 via buildworld all > >> 32 bit, nothing 64. > >> > >> Assuming it should be done like this: > >> > >> make buildworld > >> make buildkernel > >> mergemaster -p > >> make installkernel > >> (reboot) > >> (startup on 7 kernel) > >> make installworld > >> mergemaster (do full mergemaster) > >> make installworld > >> (reboot) > >> > >> (make sure all is working in 7 then do it all again; just to be sure) > >> make buildworld > >> make buildkernel > >> make installkernel > >> make installworld > >> > >> > >> Sound about right? or too redundant? > >> > >> Thanks in advance. > > > > The doing it all again part might bring some very slight performance > > improvements due to the compiler change. > > It *shouldn't* make any difference; buildworld bootstraps its own > compiler as one of the first things it does. > > None of the steps really need to be done more than once. The > redundancy as described isn't harmful, either. > _______________________________________________ You also have to recompile all your ports due to a major change in how the ports work. portupgrade -f -a