Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:52:57 +0200 From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best path from 4.3 to 4.5? Message-ID: <y9lvgb2wm86.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10204021956010.39460-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> (Annelise Anderson's message of "Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:59:36 -0800 (PST)") References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10204021956010.39460-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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>>>>> "AA" == Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> writes: AA> On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Fernan Aguero wrote: >> I'm planning an upgrade from 4.3 (actually RELENG_4_3) to 4.5. >> >> I have the 4.5-install CD, though I've never made an upgrade using >> /stand/sysinstall. >> So my plan would be to cvsup and synchronize my sources and then >> remake the world and kernel. >> >> Now, is there any impediment in going directly from 4.3 to RELENG_4_5 >> or should I do RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE (or worse yet, 4.4) first and then >> go to RELENG_4_5? >> AA> I went from a 4.0-STABLE to 4.5-STABLE without any problems except AA> forgetting to delete the symbolic links from softupdates (which are AA> no longer needed) before I cvsupped. I think you can go pretty much AA> anywhere along the 4 branch without trouble if you follow the AA> instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. You might want to install the AA> new make.conf after you cvsup and edit it, but other than that, leave AA> upgrading of /etc until after installworld (then you can do it with AA> mergemaster). login now has pam session support, which is not mentioned in UPDATING. If you have a custom pam.conf without session entries for login, you might get borked. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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