From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 13 06:20:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 ECF1E16A400 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:20:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from igorr@speechpro.com) Received: from speechpro.ru (speech-tech-2.ip.PeterStar.net [81.3.190.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8487B43D45 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:20:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from igorr@speechpro.com) Received: from [192.168.2.26] (helo=sysadm.stc) by s1.stc with esmtp (Exim 4.53 (FreeBSD)) id 1FTvC2-000MC6-Sa for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:20:38 +0400 Received: from igorr by sysadm.stc with local (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1FTvBZ-000J1k-PB for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:20:09 +0400 Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:20:09 +0400 From: Igor Robul To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060413062009.GB73035@sysadm.stc> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: Igor Robul X-Archived: Yes Subject: Re: upgrading from 5-Stable to 6-Stable via source X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:20:41 -0000 On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:20:43AM +0800, FreeBSD MailingLists wrote: > I have a bunch of production servers running 5-Stable branch and I was > considering upgrading to 6-Stable. > I have never upgraded across major version changes via source. > Is this a bad idea? > what pitfalls should i be aware of before starting? 1) For example custom modules like nvidia.ko. I recommend you just move all modules out of /boot/modules 2) Also there may be some problems with ports (shared libraries etc.) I had upgraded my workstation from 5-STABLE to 6-STABLE, and it worked. But later I got another disk, and I had decided to do clean install.