From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 12 8: 9:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8CF37B436 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:09:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ruminary.org (chiku.ruminary.org [216.218.185.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4399B43FDF for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:09:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clark@ruminary.org) Received: by ruminary.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1E61B22E19; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:09:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:09:35 -0800 From: clark shishido To: Dmitry Morozovsky Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading sequence to 4.x from 3.3-R Message-ID: <20030312160935.GA1641@ruminary.org> References: <20030312170425.G17741@woozle.rinet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030312170425.G17741@woozle.rinet.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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