From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 07:09:48 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8D716A41F for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:09:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (smtp4-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1290543D46 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:09:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (bne75-4-82-227-159-103.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.159.103]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30A23D984 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:09:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from diversion.herbelot.nom (diversion.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.6]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9B796jT024503; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:09:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Thierry Herbelot To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:08:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <434B601F.40007@contexthosting.net> <434B6102.2050608@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <434B6102.2050608@samsco.org> X-Warning: Windows can lose your files X-Op-Sys: Le FriBi de la mort qui tue X-Org: TfH&Co X-MailScanner: Found to be clean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510110908.58908.thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: Jim Keller Subject: Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6 - Make world or binary install? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: thierry@herbelot.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:09:48 -0000 Le Tuesday 11 October 2005 08:51, Scott Long a écrit : > Upgrading from 5.4 to 6.0 is very easy. I did it last weekend on my > firewall+mailserver with just the normal upgrade procedures. The only > gotcha that I can think of is the renamed serial ports. > > Scott I had crashes with some KDE apps (akkregator or amarok, for example) after upgrading a 5.4 station via buildworld/buldkernel (+ portupgrade -fa), which disappeared after I installed a new 6.0 with a new set of packages. TfH PS : I installed the "new", clean 6.0 and associated packages within a jail running from the hybrid 5.4/6.0. I could install and setup the new OS and packages without interrupting work on the currently installed 5.4/6.0 hybrid.