From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 25 04:44:00 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 63F2E16A41F for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 04:44:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from smtpout1.ywave.com (ycomradius.yelmtel.com [216.227.100.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A878543D55 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 04:43:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: (qmail 17951 invoked by uid 502); 25 Nov 2005 04:43:58 -0000 Received: from dsl28149.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.115.149) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Nov 2005 04:43:58 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.115.149 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl28149.ywave.com Message-ID: <4386968D.3050707@ywave.com> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:43:57 -0800 From: Micah User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051112) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <438657F1.7020102@rzweb.com> <20051125014355.GA34072@xor.obsecurity.org> <4386725C.8050708@rzweb.com> <20051125024638.GA35055@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051125024638.GA35055@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ron , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mysql 5.0 on FreeBSD 5.3 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: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 04:44:00 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 06:09:32PM -0800, Ron wrote: > >>>No, you can just compile it yourself using ports (although the ports >>>collection also doesn't support 5.3 any longer, most things will still >>>work). Using packages with pkg_add -r is an *alternative* to >>>compiling yourself using the ports system, and there's no point in >>>updating your ports collection if you're not going to use it. >> >>Is there a way to update to 5.4 that doesn't involve reinstalling? >>Everything I can find about it makes it seem like a very complex process. >>If someone can point me to some step-by-step docs, I would appreciate it. >>(Yes, I have looked all over the freebsd site, and I don't see anything >>that is plain and simple instructions). > > > It's explained in detail in the handbook. > > Kris Under the title "cutting edge" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html Note: it's geared towards -STABLE and -CURRENT users (hence the misleading title), just set your cvs tag to RELENG_5_4 to update to 5.4 Later, Micah