From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 18 17:37:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414D711C11 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:37:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA40483; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:37:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of the 3.1 world and upgrading from earlier releases. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:06:17 +1030." Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:37:16 -0800 Message-ID: <40480.919388236@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you're trying to get ports to stay working, install also the compat22 distribution during your upgrade. - Jordan > > On 19-Feb-99 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > from releng3.freebsd.org) and choosing an upgrade installation. This > > is a faster, less error prone and extremely direct way of upgrading > > from any previous release, be it a.out OR ELF, in comparison to a > > source upgrade. It still won't result in an installation which is > > quite as "clean" as a completely fresh install, but it does work (yes, > > I've tested it :). > > Does doing an upgrade in such a fashion result in the creation of aout direct ories? or > are all your ports broken when you upgrade? :) > > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message