From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 3 20:35:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A124D1065677 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:35:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jjuanino@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A951A8FC15 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:35:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jjuanino@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id y2so2327822uge.37 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:35:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:x-operating-system:user-agent; bh=VD+vamiLbegYY5B6+ZCTa5r1jPIwcuEgSCAtGXzwss0=; b=ZcxDFeE7dGqWZzdAjAjR/QhfxXZgXDF6Agy1v4dlMbJJSIxrxD1RV6D69BQQ8r3mCIk4+iiZn2jx19M7xSsS/vxKQIoeg3x/LxewzWmfWa4R6oyqaQz4KkUT5PKUKGwTCc1IveAxg5Ull+D0//tU9ubtvp1iAO//46WT6VLzD4k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:x-operating-system:user-agent; b=aLRXo6a425foY9dWlITl4rkSNafPNRPVm+Pfo6+q5jaadBhsz01gGV1nygW9V1glPK2PSzpfbmaPlzetG7s0JnmKRYs36X8RQl1XIlJtCE26es652QdeBzpAC/dVqGTEyktxGf6VvaBm+aMNBUQpay0l4LTcZvdG66ps1ACNou0= Received: by 10.78.21.7 with SMTP id 7mr840125huu.6.1204574981891; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:09:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from gauss.sanabria.es ( [85.54.134.61]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e8sm1469970muf.8.2008.03.03.12.09.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:09:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by gauss.sanabria.es (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A19EC40C9; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:09:37 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:09:37 +0100 From: Jose Garcia Juanino To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080303200933.GA909@gauss.sanabria.es> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J" Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Subject: It is safe to build ports for 7.0 from a 6.3 chroot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:35:33 -0000 --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi everybody Actually, I do the following in order to update from 6.3 to 7.0: 1) dump my actual 6.3 filesystems /, /var and /usr into three new ones: /rel70, /rel70/usr and /rel70/var (I use the dump command, of course) 2) chroot /rel70 and mergemaster -p + buildkernel + buildworld + installkernel + installworld + mergemaster -i and such stuff 3) Inside the chroot, rebuild the ports 4) Reboot the new release Will I go into problems following this approach? The step 3) is the most dangerous, I believe, as I have executing 7.0 commands on a 6.3 kernel (even though only for compilation). Best regards --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHzFr9FOo0zaS9RnIRAgkmAKCRFQD3vrpHsGgkfu6iQ9//qVCyfQCgpYzk hifnBrL0nXw5cwR6H+yHmaw= =SPku -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J--