From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 8:11:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3474A14F85 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:11:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 126FVm-0001IL-00; Thu, 06 Jan 2000 18:11:42 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "J. A. Landamore" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading 3.0 to 3.3 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jan 2000 16:03:25 GMT." <200001061603.QAA18482@ithaca.mcs.le.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 18:11:42 +0200 Message-ID: <4980.947175102@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 This program can be made to spit out the commands you'd need to run to update your out-of-date packages.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