From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 17:00:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A84E7106567D for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:00:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kellymartin@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 631CC8FC20 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:00:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kellymartin@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so855262ywe.13 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:00:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=5BiscF4y0F2t0SaQHIosW4QTSA94FLEF/Ayh0Dmrmvk=; b=S6RAnvXpz4QM/Ba6jGFZTTUDfgkoastOYvgILg0UK/jsyUCN0oLneHTJO1wHs8l9sW 8UeW75oyMQrG46QT5Fj7FiNOFGVQqn+LQn5uV1zjkbOI4OiN36/AI2BO6RYjtFvq1Kdz OEtrZimrjmpKKilD0SZKG7s6zbsGRwVSHU3ys= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=suktIGyUdBTwrXnoj5J3GHnZImeRO7W318VuHVZ80tx8z5WTpQiTRNLC4w5UBCxIFR 7gZXsWKWIFVPt7jgpovC/XsGItQknQHTa4u1Te6Sp1+00WbTJnQLUSL9sZTi96//0MRI 809ytNDsXh87iG4VwFjMyaH5yW/XJFlAHSkLs= Received: by 10.103.224.17 with SMTP id b17mr1148545mur.61.1227546035981; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:00:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.181.1 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:00:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1338880b0811240900gf75fad4t1f7105af2e92da08@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:00:35 -0700 From: "Kelly Martin" To: "FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: <20081119040732.GC45210@ozzmosis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1338880b0811181547s191b3170nefe5525f112bbcc2@mail.gmail.com> <20081119040732.GC45210@ozzmosis.com> Subject: Re: preparing for an upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:00:37 -0000 On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:07 PM, andrew clarke wrote: > On Tue 2008-11-18 16:47:20 UTC-0700, Kelly Martin (kellymartin@gmail.com) wrote: > >> With the release of FreeBSD 6.4 imminent, I'd like to prepare for an >> upgrade from FreeBSD 6.2 -> 6.4. > > Have you considered using freebsd-update? From memory, it supports 6.2. This weekend I finally got around to trying freebsd-update on 6.2. It is there and works, but it would only update me to 6.2-RELEASE-p11. It told me 6.2 was past its end-of-life date (which I already knew). There was no obvious way to upgrade to 6.3 binaries. I checked the man page and the configuration file too. Maybe the newer version of freebsd-update allows upgrades between point versions? (ie., 6.3 -> 6.4 ?) >> I'm a little confused about different versions of the ports tree. What >> I mean is, I keep updating my FreeBSD 6.2 ports tree and have never >> had any problems... it just works. I'm assuming the 6.4 ports tree is >> a little different and specific to 6.4? > > No, there is only one ports tree shared between all FreeBSD versions. > If you already have an updated ports tree with a 6.2 installation, you > can keep using that with 6.4 (or even 7.x). Thanks very much to you and others for putting me on track about how the ports tree works! kelly