From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 9:24:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2728337B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:24:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E52BF43F13 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:24:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1043515445.f02921@mired.org) Received: (qmail 98245 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2003 17:24:05 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 20 Jan 2003 17:24:05 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15916.12468.427402.171212@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:24:04 -0600 To: "Jeff D. Hamann" Cc: Subject: Re: best method to upgrade 4.4 to latest? In-Reply-To: <001301c2c0a3$0b5f9190$0400a8c0@toastman> References: <001301c2c0a3$0b5f9190$0400a8c0@toastman> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <001301c2c0a3$0b5f9190$0400a8c0@toastman>, Jeff D. Hamann typed: > I'd like to upgrade my system and I have a nervousness about the process. I > would like to upgrade my XFree86, samba, smbfs_mount, Qt, GRASS, etc and > have been trying to do this by cvsup and upgrading one at a time. Is it > better to simply upgrade the entire system to the latest and greatest or > upgrade one at a time? I currently have 4.4 and don't know if 4.7 or 5.0 > would be better. The machine is my company server and if anything goes > wrong, I'd be dead meat, which I'd rather avoid. The best way is probably a single upgrade. Go from 4.4->4.7. Don't go to 5.0. If all the tools you have are ports, installs the portupgrade port, then do a "portupgrade -af" to force an upgrade of all the ports. If you've installed things that aren't ports, you'll probably want to recompile those if they can be compiled. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message