Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:09:35 -0800 From: clark shishido <clark@ruminary.org> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading sequence to 4.x from 3.3-R Message-ID: <20030312160935.GA1641@ruminary.org> In-Reply-To: <20030312170425.G17741@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20030312170425.G17741@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:09:48PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > What is the correct way to upgrade FreeBSD from 3.3-R to 4.x? > check the stable archives for a thread from Ralf Engelschall. it used to be 3.x-RELEASE --> 3.5-STABLE --> 4.[1,2] and later I think there are procedures for the latest 4-STABLE. Actually here it is, I looked it up to check the spelling. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=51796+57580+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-stable/20001015.freebsd-stable I remeber doing a couple upgrades by hand even before this howto came out and it was tedious and time consuming. I remember that the perl build was the most popular stumbling block. If you use cvsup to update your source tree, you'll may need to find cvsup-16.f binaries since cvsup servers reject 16.e clients. --clark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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