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: >=20 >=20 >=20 >> On Jun 3, 2017, at 2:24 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote= : >>=20 >>> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Howard Leadmon <howard@leadmon.net> wro= te: >>> Thanks for the update, I had the feeling the issue was from it being t= o old. I have a question, not sure if you know, but I will toss it out. A= s 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? >=20 > So here is my take on the update . For starters if you are using a stock b= inary 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 bu= t there was some breakage in the 10's FreeBSD updates that prevented this . >=20 > If you decided to do a source build you can go 9.x to 10.3 w/o much.=20 I meant to say trouble but I accidentally hit send .=20 Another option is to download the binary sets from ftp.freebsd.org=20 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 k= ernel tar to /boot . Then reboot in single user . Backup your etc and extrac= t the base tar and then using etcupdate for fixing etc or manually fix it wi= th your backup . Then reboot and fix the ports using pkg -f install pkg && p= kg upgrade . However if you haven't done this before it can be error prone i= f .=20 Also you can look into boot environments for zfs but if memory serves me rig= ht it's not fully baked into 9.x and it may not work right .=20 >=20 >>>=20 >>> In the past with much older versions, I know file system changes and su= ch make it pretty hard to jump major revisions, >>> so have a little bit of fear about jumping from 9.x to 10.x, and possibl= y even to 11.x if that is now stable. I am using ZFS, so I guess that woul= d be one thing that is outside the norm, but should be part of the base kern= els now anyway. >>>=20 >>> Any input on upgrading would be most appreciated... Honestly 11 has been very stable . There are issues but nothing that has wan= ted me to roll back to 10 .=20 I am using 10.3-STABLE from about a year ago for my routers and 11.0-STABLE f= rom April for general use and it's been good and crash free. Knock on wood .= =20 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 ba= ck . So save this for last after your box has settled down and you are comfo= rtable.=20 >>=20 >> I don't know what you know I guess, but it should work following these in= structions: >>=20 >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html= >>=20 >> or these: >>=20 >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading.html >>=20 >> or these: >>=20 >> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/installation.html >>=20 >> It is probably wise to make a backup and do a test first. >>=20 >> --=20 >> Adam --- Mark Saad | nonesuch@longcount.org
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