From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 20 12:23: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (unknown [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5994D37B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 12:22:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f0KKKI722927; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:20:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A69F288.DB5C54C0@mail.iowna.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:18:16 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corvette Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Downgrading Possible? References: <20010120220349.E589@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Corvette wrote: > > Hi > Okay I've had some problem with 4.2-STABLE and I am thinking that it would be wise to > downgrade back to 3.5-STABLE and stich there for the foreseeable future. > Is this even remotely possible on a production server? > All suggestions appreciated. I accidentally tried to do this once (had an old supfile and didn't look to see what the tag was - doh!) The result was a mess! Things like perl don't "downgrade" cleanly from 4.X to 3.X. and perl is used to build other parts of the system. Personally, I believe it can be done, but a great deal of knowledge would have to exist concerning the build process and dependencies. As a learning process, I recommend it if you have the time, just make sure to backup first. If you want the fastest, cleanest way possible, I would recommend finding a window where you could schedule some downtime and backup/rebuild. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message