From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 4 16:41:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail00.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (mail00.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.118.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17BFF37B417 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:41:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 68939 messnum 523926 invoked from network[159.134.242.178/alpha.eng.eircom.net]); 5 Apr 2002 00:41:40 -0000 Received: from alpha.eng.eircom.net (159.134.242.178) by mail00.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (qp 68939) with SMTP; 5 Apr 2002 00:41:40 -0000 Received: (from jerryc@localhost) by alpha.eng.eircom.net (8.11.3/8.10.1) id g350fdX04697; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 01:41:39 +0100 (IST) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 01:41:39 +0100 From: Jerry Connolly To: Anthony Schneider Cc: Jesper Wallin , srstefanosteve@libero.it Subject: Re: info Message-ID: <20020405014139.B26189@alpha.eng.eircom.net> References: <3211.213.112.58.75.1017956087.squirrel@phucking.kicks-ass.org> <20020404182503.A3401@mail.slc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020404182503.A3401@mail.slc.edu>; from aschneid@mail.slc.edu on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:25:03PM -0500 Organization: Eircom CIRT Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anthony Schneider said the following on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:25:03PM -0500, > i'm not sure that's necessarily a good idea. > i believe that upgrading from a 3.x box via make world can get you in a lot > of trouble during the build process. There are certainly pitfalls. One possible path would be to upgrade from 3.2 to 3.5 in the normal way. Then follow these instructions: http://laa.zp.ua/doc/FreeBSD/3.5-4.x.upgrade.txt I upgraded from 3.2-RELEASE to 4.1-STABLE successfully in the past using this method. -- Jerry Connolly Security Specialist jerry.connolly@eircom.net Eircom Net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message