Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:00:38 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binary upgrades? Message-ID: <20040314170038.GA88557@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <874qsrwfiz.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: <874qsrwfiz.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de>
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--xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:37:56PM +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > I wonder if this could be made easier. I'd be surprised if there > wasn't a method of doing binary upgrades already. For example, if we > decided to track releases, would that enable us to do binary upgrades > using sysinstall, say? I vaguely remember having seen an upgrade > option in there... http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update It's still in development, so it hasn't been adopted yet as an official FreeBSD thing, but that surely is just a matter of time. Works exceedingly well, and because of Colin Percival's binary diff tool, it's really very light weight in the bandwidth usage stakes. It's available from ports, of course: security/freebsd-update The 'binary upgrade' option in sysinstall is a different thing: it's essentially a mechanism for wiping and replacing your current system with that release version, backing up various important config files as it does so. You still need to repopulate your /etc directory by merging the updated default contents with the saved versions, and it's generally not as smooth to do as the more usual means of {build,install} {world,kernel} and running mergemaster. (Unless you're upgrading over a large number of versions or across a major version number change). Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAVI+2dtESqEQa7a0RAt+tAJ9wYgbqU49vZOImpBjzHWY8KTIrpQCbB1dK iFiGCzvYqtCCWmdhx6sRf9c= =/0HI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V--
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