From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 15 12:54:43 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14655901 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:54:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound-queue-1.mail.thdo.gradwell.net (outbound-queue-1.mail.thdo.gradwell.net [212.11.70.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4B5B670 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound-edge-2.mail.thdo.gradwell.net (bonnie.gradwell.net [212.11.70.2]) by outbound-queue-1.mail.thdo.gradwell.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FE2721FE7 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:54:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from awontroba.plus.com (HELO swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk) (81.174.163.201) (smtp-auth username postmaster%pop3.stade.co.uk, mechanism cram-md5) by outbound-edge-2.mail.thdo.gradwell.net (qpsmtpd/0.83) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:54:35 +0000 Received: from swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id sAFCrntH027398 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:53:49 GMT (envelope-from aw1@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk) Received: (from aw1@localhost) by swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id sAFCrmQx027397 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:53:48 GMT (envelope-from aw1) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:53:48 +0000 From: Adrian Wontroba To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best overall upgrade from 8.x? Message-ID: <20141115125347.GC16633@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk> Reply-To: aw1@stade.co.uk References: <54673CA1.5020008@netfence.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54673CA1.5020008@netfence.it> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE Organization: Oh dear, I've joined one again. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Gradwell-MongoId: 54674d0b.b315-3134-2 X-Gradwell-Auth-Method: mailbox X-Gradwell-Auth-Credentials: postmaster@pop3.stade.co.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:54:43 -0000 On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 12:44:33PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > On 11/15/14 05:48, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I'd wait a month or so and, if no problems that might impact you pop up, > > I'd go with 10.1 > Uh... is direct upgrade (using sources) possible from 8.4 to 10.1? > No need to step through 9.x? Even the move from 9.2 (a near year old 9/stable) to 10.1 (stable/10 as of about 3 weeks ago) is slightly problematic. Following the normal upgrade procedure of installkernel and then rebooting with the userland untouched runs into a problem whereby rc.conf falls apart with a shower of eval errors, no networking, ... I do not know the cause. Fortunately the quick and dirty upgrade approach works for this case. I did not expect it to (8-) cd /usr/src mergemaster -p make installkernel make installworld mergemaster shutdown -r now -- Adrian Wontroba