From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 21 08:23:53 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D911065674 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:23:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michaelp@bsquare.com) Received: from owa.bsquare.com (vpn.bsquare.com [12.107.117.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED658FC0C for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.150.16.163] (81.2.99.171) by BREAL.camelot.bsquare.com (192.168.100.67) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.298.4; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:23:52 -0700 Message-ID: <4FE2DA16.5040704@mpcdata.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:23:50 +0100 From: Mike Pumford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120612 Firefox/14.0 SeaMonkey/2.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <20120620045759.GY42080@manor.msen.com> <20120620185618.GC42080@manor.msen.com> In-Reply-To: <20120620185618.GC42080@manor.msen.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [81.2.99.171] Subject: Re: Seeking 6.4 make source for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:23:53 -0000 Michael R. Wayne wrote: > Upgrading a port can be done without rebooting the machine. Upgrading > the O/S is a MUCH more major undertaking and is almost never a "clean" > process. Plus the time investment multiplied by many machines is huge > (and dreaded). > 6.x->7 was pretty painless. The machine was down for about 20mins while I did the installkernel/installworld step. I was in a bit of a rush so I didn't do the full mergemaster on /etc at that point in time and the only quirk I saw was a PAM auth warning in the log that didn't impact anything in the configuration I was using. This was fixed when I did the mergemaster on /etc (which I did on a snapshot later). At this point in time the machine was still running ports compiled in the 5.x timeframe. I then created a chroot environment to do the ports update in. Mike -- Mike Pumford, Senior Software Engineer MPC Data Limited e-mail: mpumford@mpcdata.com web: www.mpcdata.com tel: +44 (0) 1225 710600 fax: +44 (0) 1225 710601 ddi: +44 (0) 1225 710635