From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 16 12:16: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E43E37C20A for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:15:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16727; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:15:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:15:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: "Jeffrey J. Libman" Cc: Daniel Boyd , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jeffrey J. Libman wrote: > interesting. i have managed to do my "make installworld" updates on 3.4 > without dropping to single user in the past. i know this is often > ill-advised...but i seem to get away with it. is this not possible in > future releases? or is this only super critical with the 3.4->4.0 upgrade? It depends on your system. For years I have always done all of my make world stuff in multi-user, including major version upgrades. I got bit twice, and both were recoverable. In fact, one of the two times I even noticed a difference was when my version of gnuls didn't like the new lib so I had to 'unalias ls' for about 20 minutes. :) Then again, something in your system might go terribly wrong, and your machine could blow up (or something). This is why we tell you to take really good backups BEFORE doing upgrades, and make sure you can restore from them if need be. Good luck, Doug -- "While the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it would be easier sometimes to change the past" - Jackson Browne, "Fountain of Sorrow" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message