From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 6 05:18:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA15263 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 05:18:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.reed.wattle.id.au (darren2.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.53.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA15258 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 05:18:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au) Received: (from root@localhost) by firewall.reed.wattle.id.au (8.9.1/8.8.7) id NAA03110 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 13:17:26 GMT Received: from avalon.reed.wattle.id.au(192.168.1.1) by firewall.reed.wattle.id.au via smap (V1.3) id sma003108; Wed Jan 6 13:17:08 1999 Received: from percival.reed.wattle.id.au. (percival.reed.wattle.id.au [192.168.1.5]) by avalon.reed.wattle.id.au (8.9.0.Beta3/8.9.0.Beta3) with SMTP id AAA06968 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 00:17:08 +1100 (EST) From: Darren Reed Message-Id: <199901061317.AAA06968@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> Subject: Upgrading pains. To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 00:17:07 +1100 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Upgrading is noted as being a rough process, however, a one thing which make it more difficult: /var/* appears to be nuked whilst /usr and friends survive. (Either that or I did select "Y" for NEWFS which I don't recall doing). This prevents a meaningful attempt to upgrade packages, which should be easily possible with a perl script of sorts, along with losing logs, etc. btw, has anyone got a perl script to upgrade all the install packages in /var/db/pkg ? Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message