From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 16:10:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C2916A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:10:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CC543D39 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:10:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (e4f06f7c93d93aa03f4b05e21dec9abe@adsl-67-119-53-203.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.203])i2I0A4XY000044; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:10:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BD23551932; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:10:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:10:03 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Richard Stevenson Message-ID: <20040318001003.GA71674@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jRHKVT23PllUwdXP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade 5.0-REL to 5.2.1-REL X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:10:19 -0000 --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:39:57PM +1300, Richard Stevenson wrote: > Hi all >=20 > I've got a couple of FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE boxen on the network, and I > rather think I need to upgrade them (I'm thinking 5.2.1-RELEASE as the > target). Can I *safely* do this using cvsup/make buildworld/make > buildkernel/make installkernel/boot -s/make installworld? After taking a > backup, of course... I just can't see any mention of 5.0 -> 5.2 in > src/UPDATING, or the release notes, or anything like that. It's supposed to work, but that upgrade path is probably not frequently tested. It might be quicker to do a binary upgrade with sysinstall. > Is such a course likely to cause any major breakages in installed ports > (specifically Apache, rt, mailman)? Trying to do this with minimal > disruption, since both servers are in production. Yes. You'll likely have to rebuild all your ports to deal with various binary incompatibilities. Sorry, but that's one of the reasons why previous 5.x releases have been labelled "Not a Production Release" :-) Kris --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAWOjbWry0BWjoQKURAtyjAKC7xMDZzeU92VTWIC8LhZKSQLWGLwCg2dG4 5ExaMGyjTuA7XsILIyOQHh0= =Upn2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP--