Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 23:55:22 +0200 From: Roman Kennke <roman@ontographics.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release Message-ID: <1086558922.1256.39.camel@moonlight.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200406061449.04391.kstewart@owt.com> References: <1086558075.1256.33.camel@moonlight.localdomain> <200406061449.04391.kstewart@owt.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, > > > 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), .. > > Apart from that i updated my systems many times, without being in > > single user mode, with an ssh connection. > > This doesn't work on the upgrade to 5.2 from 5.1. You have to boot into > single user mode to do the installworld. You have incompatible features > at this upgrade. Exactly these kinds of hassles I don't want. I am wondering - FreeBSD has built such a nice thing like the ports system. It's a work of genius. Only that the install/upgrade process of the system itself is completely different (and not very convenient IMO). Is it not possible to 'port' the System stuff into the ports system (or a different ports system, say, the 'system ports' or something like that). Just an idea. Ok, are there other ways? Isn't there a script, which places the new archives over the old ones, and removes the stuff, that's left from the old system? Or is this a too-difficult task? /Roman [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAw5LKbTKKqwP/8kARAtp/AJ9UIjMkOCd4F5xFRbAZm7qkX88mygCfQJYq kNixvW6hcnL2JzbcdxyDb18= =b6LH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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