Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 18:11:42 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: "J. A. Landamore" <jal@mcs.le.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading 3.0 to 3.3 Message-ID: <4980.947175102@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jan 2000 16:03:25 GMT." <200001061603.QAA18482@ithaca.mcs.le.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 06 Jan 2000 16:03:25 GMT, "J. A. Landamore" wrote: > I want to upgrade my copy of 3.0-RELEASE to 3.3-RELEASE. If I use > the kern and mfsroot floppies and then use the upgrade option will it > automagically select the packages I already have installed and upgrade > them? No. Neither this, nor the alternative course of action which you suggested will automatically upgrade your existing packages. By the waya, do it this way. _DON'T_ use an existing /stand/sysinstall's Upgrade option. You should use the pkg_info(1) command to find out which packages you have installed and then upgrade them. However, if I were you, I'd upgrade to 3.4-RELEASE, which is supplied with a nifty program called pkg_version(1). This program can be made to spit out the commands you'd need to run to update your out-of-date packages. it's quite cool. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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