Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:51:30 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading sequence to 4.x from 3.3-R Message-ID: <20030312175112.F17741@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Bill Moran wrote: BM> > What is the correct way to upgrade FreeBSD from 3.3-R to 4.x? BM> BM> Wow ... that's a bit of a leap. I expect you're going to have BM> problems going that far easily. It's not me ;-) It's a home router of one of my Friends which I helped to set up approx 2 and a half years ago ;-))) BM> > Currently I simply exclude gperf from bootstrap-tools from Makefile.inc, but it BM> > seems a bit hackish... BM> BM> I'm no expert on the source tree, but I would think that you might have an easier BM> time of it if you backup up the system and reinstalled. Yeah, I do have misterious arrors later, even when I tried to make only essential binaries. BM> If that seems terribly impractical, you might do better by stepping it. For BM> example: BM> 1) First upgrade to 3-STABLE. BM> 2) Then upgrade to an early 4.x, such as 4.2-RELEASE BM> 3) Then upgrade to 4-STABLE Well, I suppose steps 2 and 3 may be glued together, but anyway now checking out RELENG_3 (luckily machine is available from my workplace; however, it's plain'n'old P-166 with 32M of memory ;-) BM> I do think you're going to have problems if you attempt the upgrade without BM> upgrading perl as well. perl is used in many parts of the system in 4.x, if BM> you don't upgrade it, you may not even be able to build 4.x, and if it does BM> build and install, you may find many utilities don't work. Yes, I know. However, if you read through UPDATING you'll see -DNOPERL in section "Upgrading from 3.x" Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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