Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:26:52 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar.flygt@sr.se> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading sequence to 4.x from 3.3-R Message-ID: <3E6F43AC.7060702@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20030312142025.GC58151@sr.se> References: <20030312170425.G17741@woozle.rinet.ru> <3E6F41FD.3000908@potentialtech.com> <20030312142025.GC58151@sr.se>
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Gunnar Flygt wrote: <snip> >>I'm no expert on the source tree, but I would think that you might have an >>easier >>time of it if you backup up the system and reinstalled. >> >>If that seems terribly impractical, you might do better by stepping it. For >>example: >>1) First upgrade to 3-STABLE. >>2) Then upgrade to an early 4.x, such as 4.2-RELEASE >>3) Then upgrade to 4-STABLE >> >>I do think you're going to have problems if you attempt the upgrade without >>upgrading perl as well. perl is used in many parts of the system in 4.x, if >>you don't upgrade it, you may not even be able to build 4.x, and if it does >>build and install, you may find many utilities don't work. > > Wouldn't it be easier to do a binary upgrade? Perhaps it would, but I've never used the binary upgrade system, so I can't recommend it. Also, someone else was on the list complaining of failure in the binary upgrade system just a few days ago. See the archives, as I didn't follow the thread closely and may have misunderstood. Also, Dmitry, backup the system before you do _anything_! And, Dmitry, your mail server is fussy ... it refuses my email because it's not going through my ISPs relay. How does it know? I know for a fact that my DNS/RDNS is set up correctly. I don't use my ISPs relay because it's not reliable. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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