From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 31 19:13:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-66.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C842937B424 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 19:13:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7C505678A5; Thu, 31 May 2001 19:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:13:31 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Raymond Brighenti Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hints and tips for upgrading from 3.2 to latest release Message-ID: <20010531191331.B13040@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010601114404.018af770@mail.webfront.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010601114404.018af770@mail.webfront.net.au>; from bargi@webfront.net.au on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:46:58AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:46:58AM +1000, Raymond Brighenti wrote: > Hi, >=20 > We're going to be attempting to upgrade our mail server running Sendmail= =20 > and Qpopper to the latest release of FreeBSD >=20 > Apart from back everything up :) does anyone have any hints or tips or=20 > gotcha's in attempting this? Don't bother trying to upgrade by recompiling source, it's much more trouble than it's worth. Just do a binary upgrade and it should all just work. You'll want to install the /usr/src/etc/ sources and use mergemaster(8) to complete your upgrade by updating /etc. Kris --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7FvpLWry0BWjoQKURAnNeAKCr7gtz435wmZRPHXB7zBZdXSsIngCfZLD3 xRc3ZQYQcS41ax/jC3Npvm4= =FdJa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message