From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 3 02:21:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B93F16A4CE for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 02:21:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D5FA43D1D for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 02:21:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dsyphers@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) ESMTP id i932Lk3l023040; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 19:21:48 -0700 Received: from yggdrasil.seektruth.org (c-24-18-235-11.client.comcast.net [24.18.235.11]) (authenticated bits=0)i932Lj5X029180 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 2 Oct 2004 19:21:45 -0700 From: David Syphers To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 19:22:16 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <415D71FF.6040805@tele2.it> In-Reply-To: <415D71FF.6040805@tele2.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410021922.16505.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> cc: Esaltato Subject: Re: upgrading: 5.2.1 to 5.3 OR a new 5.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 02:21:49 -0000 On Friday 01 October 2004 08:04 am, Esaltato wrote: > Hello. What is your general opinion on upgrading FreeBSD installations? > I ask this since 5.3 is close and I'm gonna move to a new hd, but I > don't know whether is more wise to move my existing beloved 5.2.1 > install or to start anew. > Reinstalling has it pros like deleting all the possible junk. But being > FreeBSD a very polished filesystem furnished OS, I think it might be > safe to convert my 5.2.1 to 5.3 without inheriting too much junk. > Are there any cons? Maybe the new tecnhology may leave unexpected > problems pending against the old one? > I must say I'm really in favour of a new install, but thinking to the > many customizations and mods I've done and to the time it could take to > redo them... > Obviously i would take my conf. files with me, upgrading them when > necessary. > Opinions? I'd recommend a reinstall. There have been several changes since 5.2.1 that require ports to be rebuilt - new perl, new gcc, incompatible library changes - so you'd have to rebuild all your ports anyway. It does take a little while to get everything back the way you want it again (I just did a reinstall myself). But there's something nice about having a clean system. -David