From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 1 11:34:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Thanatos.Shenton.Org (a3.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C477B37B423 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 11:34:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 57059 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Jun 2001 18:34:25 -0000 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Raymond Brighenti , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hints and tips for upgrading from 3.2 to latest release References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010601114404.018af770@mail.webfront.net.au> <20010531191331.B13040@xor.obsecurity.org> From: Chris Shenton Date: 01 Jun 2001 14:34:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20010531191331.B13040@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <87wv6wjbgu.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Kris Kennaway writes: > 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. This may sound lame, but is the binary upgrade (presumably via /stand/sysinstall) something that can be done over the net? Or when it replaces my ssh, X11, etc, will my connection die as the old binary or its libraries get replaced? I'd prefer to be in front of the console of course, but sometimes it's not possible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message