Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 15:28:19 -0400 From: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: Howard Leadmon <howard@leadmon.net>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Errors with ports on 9.3.. Message-ID: <30983B16-2B3C-4C55-B1F2-B3D3C79255F8@longcount.org> In-Reply-To: <DF052621-61A9-45B9-806E-C0C7FB57C98B@longcount.org> References: <b034cb89-59cf-a223-cffa-33f64835a04a@leadmon.net> <26C906AE-B12E-4D94-A89D-415A423D3801@longcount.org> <0a4e0551-877d-eb09-9a18-431a8e782e0b@leadmon.net> <CA%2BtpaK2XxEKdBBY5hZrw9KGR2ozcDBE1FFm=-ZbNQ4f8jVtJ_w@mail.gmail.com> <DF052621-61A9-45B9-806E-C0C7FB57C98B@longcount.org>
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> On Jun 3, 2017, at 3:10 PM, Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> wrote: > > > >> On Jun 3, 2017, at 2:24 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Howard Leadmon <howard@leadmon.net> wrote: >>> Thanks for the update, I had the feeling the issue was from it being to old. I have a question, not sure if you know, but I will toss it out. As I mentioned I update using svn for both src and ports, and I am curious to know if I can actually bring my src tree up to the most current 10.x stable, recompile, and install and have it all run? > > So here is my take on the update . For starters if you are using a stock binary 9.3-RELEASE you can use freebsd-update to go 9.3 -> 10.1 , 10.1 -> 10.3 , 10.3 -> 11.0 . In theory freebsd-update should allow for 9.x -> 10.x but there was some breakage in the 10's FreeBSD updates that prevented this . > > If you decided to do a source build you can go 9.x to 10.3 w/o much. I meant to say trouble but I accidentally hit send . Another option is to download the binary sets from ftp.freebsd.org ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/11.0-RELEASE/ Now with some care you can backup your 9 kernel to kernel.old and untar the kernel tar to /boot . Then reboot in single user . Backup your etc and extract the base tar and then using etcupdate for fixing etc or manually fix it with your backup . Then reboot and fix the ports using pkg -f install pkg && pkg upgrade . However if you haven't done this before it can be error prone if . Also you can look into boot environments for zfs but if memory serves me right it's not fully baked into 9.x and it may not work right . > >>> >>> In the past with much older versions, I know file system changes and such make it pretty hard to jump major revisions, >>> so have a little bit of fear about jumping from 9.x to 10.x, and possibly even to 11.x if that is now stable. I am using ZFS, so I guess that would be one thing that is outside the norm, but should be part of the base kernels now anyway. >>> >>> Any input on upgrading would be most appreciated... Honestly 11 has been very stable . There are issues but nothing that has wanted me to roll back to 10 . I am using 10.3-STABLE from about a year ago for my routers and 11.0-STABLE from April for general use and it's been good and crash free. Knock on wood . One thing to remember is upgrading the zpool and zfs version/ feature flags . Al la zfs upgrade pool0/foo . This is a one time job ; with no way to go back . So save this for last after your box has settled down and you are comfortable. >> >> I don't know what you know I guess, but it should work following these instructions: >> >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html >> >> or these: >> >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading.html >> >> or these: >> >> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/installation.html >> >> It is probably wise to make a backup and do a test first. >> >> -- >> Adam --- Mark Saad | nonesuch@longcount.org
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