From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 20 17:48:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9307F37B422 for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 17:48:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 13A0E66E1D; Sun, 20 May 2001 17:48:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 17:48:48 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: rshea@opendoor.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dougy@brizzie.org Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: upgrade from 4.0 to 4.3 Message-ID: <20010520174848.A39141@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010521003730.DD1361F9C89@deborah.paradise.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010521003730.DD1361F9C89@deborah.paradise.net.nz>; from rshea@opendoor.co.nz on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:38:08PM +1200 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 --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:38:08PM +1200, rshea@opendoor.co.nz wrote: >=20 > > I have that happen with over 50% of ports etc .... most reliably way > > to upgrade > > appears to be save anything you need on another machine & do a fresh > > install > > from CD >=20 > Is this really true ? I've got a 3.4-RELEASE machine which I've never cvs= upped.=20 > I've been putting off the evil day (everything is nice and stable and I'm= =20 > disinclined to rock the boat). >=20 > Am I right in thinking that I can cvsup up from 3.4-R to some current lev= el ? It's more work to upgrade between 3.x and 4.x by recompiling from source -- in fact, it's probably not worth the trouble (there's a way that works, but it involves cvsupping to various releases and recompiling about 4 times). We've taken a lot more care to preserve the upgrade path thesedays though. For upgrading to 4.3, you're best off doing a binary upgrade. Doug's experiences with ports certainly are *not* typical. Kris --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7CGXwWry0BWjoQKURAtHnAKDRRbYMNG9oouet4gcC26+4k0huLgCfSYXO uQgg+Zt88frfR1hBzcBAHhY= =IjL9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message