From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 17 20:49:18 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 3999516A4CE; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:49:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mizar.origin-it.net (mizar.origin-it.net [194.8.96.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3ED43D2F; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:49:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from helge.oldach@atosorigin.com) Received: from matar.hbg.de.int.atosorigin.com (dehsfw3e.origin-it.net [194.8.96.68])i6HKmYul049730 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 17 Jul 2004 22:48:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from helge.oldach@atosorigin.com) Received: from galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com (galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com [161.89.20.4])ESMTP id i6HKmYhj003944; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 22:48:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from helge.oldach@atosorigin.com) Received: (from hmo@localhost) by galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com (8.9.3p2/8.9.3/hmo30mar03) id WAA24208; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 22:48:33 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200407172048.WAA24208@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com> In-Reply-To: <40F92085.9040500@elvandar.org> from Remko Lodder at "Jul 17, 2004 2:50:13 pm" To: remko@elvandar.org (Remko Lodder) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 22:48:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Helge Oldach X-Address: Atos Origin GmbH, Friesenstraße 13, D-20097 Hamburg, Germany X-Phone: +49 40 7886 7464, Fax: +49 40 7886 9464, Mobile: +49 160 4782517 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: mrb@bmyster.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x 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: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:49:18 -0000 Remko Lodder: >Brent Bailey wrote: > >> Hello, >> My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd >> systems that are pretty old. The customer is running a file server samba >> also running apache running FBSD 4.2, he wants to upgrade using cvsup & >> the make buildworld procedure to upgrade to 5.x. Im very familier with the >> make buildworld procedure however there have been significant changes >> between 4.2 & 5.x so is this something that can be done without many >> problems ? Aside from reading throught the /usr/src/UPDATING file are >> there things i should look out for being that the 2 versions are so >> differrent. >> >> personally i would recommend going to the lastest stable release 4.10-p2 >> >> I welcome this lists thoughts & opions on this matter >> >> thank in advance for any help :-) > >Hey Brent, > >FreeBSD 5.x has not yet been described as production release ready. >So your customer is best advised to use the 4.x branch, and indeed at >the moment that is 4.10 (and the patches afterwards ofcourse). Furthermore, the advice is to upgrade to a very recent 4.x first, before taking the step to 5.x. So you´ll probably want to upgrade to 4.10p2 or 4-STABLE anyway. Maybe your customer would like you to go for an updated 4.x first, and go to 5.x later when it will be STABLE. Helge