From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 26 20:22:10 2005 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 25FBD16A41C for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 20:22:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gregorynou@altern.org) Received: from esemetz.metz.supelec.fr (esemetz.metz.supelec.fr [193.48.224.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 554D143D48 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 20:22:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gregorynou@altern.org) Received: from [193.48.225.2] (nou.rez-metz.supelec.fr [193.48.225.2]) by esemetz.metz.supelec.fr (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id j4QKM7s10698 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 22:22:08 +0200 Message-ID: <42962FEB.5030106@altern.org> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 22:22:03 +0200 From: Gregory Nou User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20050526194137.GB50503@keyslapper.net> In-Reply-To: <20050526194137.GB50503@keyslapper.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: 5.3->5.4 upgrade method 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, 26 May 2005 20:22:10 -0000 Louis LeBlanc wrote: >Ok, I've settled on upgrading to 5.4 (from 5.4 RELEASE) but I can't >find an explicit statement that performing such an upgrade with >cvsup/buildworld/buildkernel, etc. would be ok. No kernel config >gotchas mentioned either. Of course it seems implied that this would >be a perfectly fine way to do the upgrade. > >Has anyone else used this upgrade method going from 5.3 to 5.4? >Any caveats on the kernel config? > >Thanks >Lou > > Hi, I'm not sure it's actually the question you're asking, but i did a cvsup, buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld yesterday, from a 5.3-release to 5.4-release, and I didn't had problems. However, since I do have something very classical (Athlon-xp mono-processor), it wasn't very dangerous ... Good luck -- Grégory