From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 26 09:24:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A89EC106564A for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:24:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from myself@rdtan.net) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778268FC0C for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iakl21 with SMTP id l21so8831943iak.13 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:24:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.161.196 with SMTP id u4mr15679653icx.31.1322297809779; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:56:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from zion.local ([115.135.189.16]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cb15sm8375779ibb.4.2011.11.26.00.56.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:56:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ED0A9CD.4030303@rdtan.net> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:56:45 +0800 From: Edward User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4ECF6A90.9020906@gmail.com> <4ECF9E78.6000602@gmail.com> <4ECFA2AC.3020209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ECFA2AC.3020209@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Strange issues while upgrading ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:24:53 -0000 On 11/25/11 10:14 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: > Would you also advise to upgrade my BSD 'release'? > The FreeBSD Handbook have a section covering it : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html My personal experience : http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2009/07/freebsd-how-to-upgrade-kernel-or-base.html *** disclosure, that's my blog. > If so I would upgrade to 8.2 as stated in a previous posting but since > I'm running jails and many services aggregated into one machine, what's > the best way to proceed? > > I'm currently just backing up /etc, /var, /usr/shared, /usr/local/etc, > /usr/local/var, and /usr/local/shared. > Don't forget /usr/jails, that's where your jails live. > Will the freebsd-upgrade tool wipe all my config files? Or will the > upgrade be seamless? You might wanna try freebsd-update on a box with customize config files (e.g. /etc/hosts, /etc/ssh/sshd_config or blah blah blah) to have a feel on how mergemaster works on merging config files. It took me a few upgrade tries to get familiar with it. In general, if you've backup the configs in /etc & /usr/local/etc, you can always restore the working copy back and your services shouldn't fail :)