Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:28:13 +1100 From: Jim Mock <jim@corp.au.triax.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: binary upgrade to 3.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <19990216122812.A1670@corp.au.triax.com>
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What would I break if I did a binary upgrade to 3.1-RELEASE on a box running 2.2.8-RELEASE? I don't have enough hard drive space to cvsup and make world, so it's either do a binary upgrade or reinstall clean (ick). Now, I know that 3.x+ uses ELF instead of a.out binaries, and if I was going to upgrade with cvsup I'd need to do a make-aout-to-elf, which is the reason for my question. According the RELNOTES.TXT for 3.1-RELEASE, it does seem like a possibility.. [paste] In the case of using the binary upgrade option, the system will go straight to 3.1/ELF but also populate the /<basepath>/lib/aout directories for backwards compatibility with older binaries. In either case, going to ELF will mean that you'll have somewhat smaller binaries and access to a lot more compiler goodies which have been already been ported to other ELF environments (our older and somewhat crufty a.out format being largely unsupported by most other software projects). Those who wish to retain access to the older a.out dynamic executables should be sure and install the compat22 distribution. [end paste] So.. am I asking for trouble with a binary upgrade? Thanks, -- : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | The FreeBSD' zine : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsdzine.org/ : : FreeBSD: The Power To Serve | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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