Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:27:57 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Crucial Servers <admin@crucialservers.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5 Message-ID: <20040310082757.GA84229@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1b5b01c40671$fe69bc70$6401a8c0@JAMES> References: <1b5b01c40671$fe69bc70$6401a8c0@JAMES>
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--0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:33:34AM -0500, Crucial Servers wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I need some advice on steps for upgrading a very valueble > machine. This machine has an uptime of 393 days. I need to install a > secure version of "curl" this is our main focus right now. FreeBSD > 3.5 ports collection is very b0rked and nothing works, I tried > downloading the cvsup source and installing it, but now it cant find > m3build. "Secured" version of curl? I don't know what you mean by that, but on a networked 3.5 system an insecure ftp/www client is the least of your security worries! > My main focus is getting this OS to 4.9-STABLE the SAFE way and > "Yes" its a contracted machine so its remote. I know there is going > to be tons of b0rked programs when I'm all said and done. Can > someone please explain how to tackle this animal slowly, I was > thinking 4.0 then 4.5 then 4.9. Do you have a serial console installed? If so, you can just do a binary upgrade install instead of messing around trying to compile the sources. Make sure you do a complete system backup before you begin, of course. Kris --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFATtGNWry0BWjoQKURAhBiAKCDl+6d3uhl7VjmqKX+Nx/1j/J43gCfWaju XFfxsK76wIlH0icOu5KTG1Q= =tf9D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0F1p//8PRICkK4MW--
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