From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 07:56:43 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 B3C9D16A4CF for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 07:56:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F17C43D48 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 07:56:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:00:02 -0600 Message-ID: <400EA101.7080105@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:55:45 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031124 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Adams References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jan 2004 16:00:02.0953 (UTC) FILETIME=[A13E1790:01C3E037] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade procedure question 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: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:56:43 -0000 John Adams wrote: > Hi, folks, > > I decided my minor problems (a couple I've posted, a couple I > haven't) might be solved by doing what I should've already done, > namely, upgrading from 4.6 to 4.9. > > I'm looking at the text of INSTALL.TXT right now, and I've got a > question which, if it weren't so basic, would probably be a FAQ: Does > the install really copy all of the old /etc to some new location which > you are prompted to define at the time of the upgrade? That's what it > seems to say, but I'd feel foolish having gotten it wrong. > > If that's really true, then I'm ready to go--but if it's not, then > I'm potentially in a world of hurt, having a lot of stuff stuck in > /etc (both config files and stuff I've put there for safekeeping > during the upgrade) that I really don't want to lose. > > Thanks, > > John A > What "install" do you mean? Upgrading a la: a. cvsup new source b. make buildworld c. make buildkernel d. make installkernel e. reboot and make installworld doesn't touch /etc. That's a job for mergemaster, which AFAICT puts the "new" /etc/ stuff under /tmp and then does diffs and asks you what to do with them.... HTH, Kevin Kinsey