From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 07:48:38 2003 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 3BE8A37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-217.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7979543F3F for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:48:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h5CEmaOg002164; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:48:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EE892C4.10405@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:48:36 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: jesse@wingnet.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8 to 5.0 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: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:48:38 -0000 Chris wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Alex de Kruijff wrote: > >>On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 11:12:23AM +0200, Doron Shmaryahu wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I have been considering upgrading my machine from 4.8 – 5.0. Is it a easy >>>buildworld or can anyone give me advice on any problems before upgrading. >>> >> >>If i where you i would joing the current maillinglist and then wait for >>5.1 to come out and download it. When it does download it (with cvsup) >>and then wait another two weeks to compile the code. If there are any >>big bugs they will come up on the mailling list. > >>5.1-RELEASE ISOs have been available from the FreeBSD website for the past >>three days now. > > While this is true - the question that remains unaddressed is, can he CVSUP > from 4.8 to 5.1 > I too would like to see how users are doing this without a complete wipe of > the drive in favor of a virgin install. Check the archives. There was recently a thread on -CURRENT about 5 not building on a 4.x system. I believe the utilities in 4 (gcc et al) are too old to build 5's source tree, but check the archives for the details. For my part, I did a clean wipe of the drive and reinstalled. It was an unholy headache and I regret it, but now that I've got 5.1 running I'm pretty happy. Make sure to get 5.1, at least. A lot of issues have been resolved in 5.1 that existed in 5, and don't cvsup to HEAD on any machine that you need to work. The developers have been nice enough to put together a RELENG_5_1 branch that is relatively safe to follow. And subscribe to the -CURRENT mailing list as long as you're using it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com