Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 00:54:29 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modernizing freebsd-update or moving to source upgrades Message-ID: <20171105175428.GA40566@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> In-Reply-To: <20171105141148.2041.qmail@secure.orange-carb.org> References: <20171105141148.2041.qmail@secure.orange-carb.org>
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Colin Henein wrote: [dd] > > QUESTION: Do I need to do anything special to change over to > updating fbsd from source if I have been using freebsd-update in the > past? I see the instructions at section 23.5 of the handbook. Can I > just check out a new source tree with SVN from the 11.1 repository > and follow the steps to overwrite 11.0 with 11.1? Very much > appreciate any tips, especially on merging files in etc. From my experience, the source upgrade is more failsafe than the binary upgrade. If in doubt, I always use the source upgrade. IMHO you don't need to do anything special, just follow the instructions in /usr/src/Makefile, and don't forget the delete-old step. The mergemaster utility is also much more convenient than freebsd-update's merge routine, and you can rerun it as many times as you wish provided you have backed up your original /etc. I have always wondered if I could somehow use mergemaster together with binary upgrades. The last problem I had with freebsd-update (AFAIK when upgrading from 9.x to 10.x) was that after the first "freebsd-update install && reboot" all my network interfaces were gone: the old ifconfig did not go well with the new kernel. Luckily I had console access. I don't know however if this would have happened in case of a source upgrade. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859
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