From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 05:44:03 2004 Return-Path: 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 E7BD016A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 05:44:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE77F43D2D for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 05:44:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: (qmail 26414 invoked by uid 513); 7 Jun 2004 05:46:52 -0000 Received: from root@pukruppa.de by dsl-mail by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.21 Clear:RC:1(213.146.114.24):SA:0(-4.9/5.0):. Processed in 0.530685 secs); 07 Jun 2004 05:46:52 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO reverse-213-146-114-24.dialin.kamp-dsl.de) (213.146.114.24) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 7 Jun 2004 05:46:52 -0000 Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 07:44:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa X-X-Sender: root@pukruppa.net To: Roman Kennke In-Reply-To: <1086558075.1256.33.camel@moonlight.localdomain> Message-ID: <20040607072559.O844@pukruppa.net> References: <1086558075.1256.33.camel@moonlight.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 05:44:04 -0000 On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Roman Kennke wrote: > Hi list, > > One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way > to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. > I mean, I have a server running, to which I have no physical access. The > only way to maintain it, is over SSH. > The upgrade instructions in INSTALL.txt suggest putting in the CD, and > using sysinstall for a binary upgrade. That is no option for me. > > What I am looking for is an upgrade method which > - can be used over an SSH connection > - is not too difficult (like manually placing each piece in the right > place) > - does not leave old stuff on the HD (like the sysinstall method does, > AFAIK) Generally this can be done (though it is not recommended) the way that is described in Chapter 21 of the handbook - you just don't drop into single user mode. But you shouldn't track -CURRENT then, since -CURRENT developers tend to produce some horrible bugs every two or three months. Do test this upgrade procedure on a local machine, so you know how things work. > > ... to make it short, something like the ports system (especially > portupgrade) does with non-system apps would be cool. > > Is there a way to achieve that? This would be the one bit, which would > make me switch to FreeBSD. I am convinced you will. Uli. > /Roman > > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+