Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:00:00 -0500 From: "B. Cook" <bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org> To: Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> Cc: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7 from 6.3 Message-ID: <5BF5C797-C77E-450E-8328-1D7F058D9479@poughkeepsieschools.org> In-Reply-To: <8d23ec860802280958v2dae110av11d7277f8bb6e6fa@mail.gmail.com> References: <0AAFAC92-CF83-42CC-A148-FB24261A4556@poughkeepsieschools.org> <47C6EE06.4010403@bsdforen.de> <44y79555on.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <8d23ec860802280958v2dae110av11d7277f8bb6e6fa@mail.gmail.com>
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Yea I saw how openssl was updated and a ton of other things as well.. this is a new box w/o much on it.. so it's a good test. (going to try portmaster on this box as well.. ) portmaster -fa (iirc) On Feb 28, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Schiz0 wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Lowell Gilbert > <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: >> Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> 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
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