From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 27 15:58:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C1C6155FD for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:58:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA06698; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:56:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:56:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Eliezer Rodriguez Gonzalez Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 Hi, On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Eliezer Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote: > You mean, you have performed upgrade on production systems without > dying of heart attack. I've just come from my first upgrade on my own > system, and after dealing with ldconfig -aout all my old binaries are > working, even X. I recommend using mergemaster, in the ports, to help merge the old /etc tree and the new one - it will fix all of the ldconfig problems if you can do that. > I see in the list there are people againts this procedure, I really > don't know what to decide, anyway I'll be able to reproduce my > original systems in case something goes wrong, cause I run the amanda > backup system so I've them on tape. Well, Jordan says not to and frankly he's probably right - I mean he wrote the upgrade procedure as I recall so ... Anyway, it worked for me, but may not work for you - you do have backups so that's good. Brett ***************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message