From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 8 18:35:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1278216A468 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:35:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ubm@u-boot-man.de) Received: from mail.upper.net (mail.upper.net [62.75.224.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A74C913C455 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:35:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ubm@u-boot-man.de) Received: from ubm.mine.nu (p57AE1F07.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.174.31.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.upper.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l68IZZAx011075 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:35:35 +0200 Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:42:55 +0200 From: Marc "UBM" Bocklet To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20070708204255.01e19101.ubm@u-boot-man.de> In-Reply-To: <4690CFAA.30004@gmail.com> References: <8cdf6c720707070710k2b7e030v37683e460d983bf9@mail.gmail.com> <20070708111105.C9997@fledge.watson.org> <20070708132545.5604cbe9.ubm@u-boot-man.de> <4690CFAA.30004@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: status of 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:35:38 -0000 On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:51:06 +0200 Rene Ladan wrote: > Marc UBM Bocklet schreef: > > > > > > I'd like to do some testing, but I'm a little bit afraid of the > > upgrade procedure 6.2-stable to -current. Is it possible to do a > > simple upgrade if I follow the guidelines in UPGRADE or are there > > any hidden caveats? (like "you've to recompile all installed > > ports", etc. :-)) > > > [...don't try this on a production box...] > > Just following the procedure and the changelog entries in > /usr/src/UPDATING should do the job. It's probably best to cvsup > into a new directory and clean /usr/obj before beginning the update. > That's how I updated from RELENG_6 to HEAD back in November 2006. > > Since we have a misc/compat6x port and a COMPAT_FREEBSD6 kernel > configuaration option, it shouldn't be necessary to rebuild all your > ports. Thanks a lot to you and David for the quick response, I'll try updating tomorrow :-) Bye Marc -- "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming