From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 24 16:37:49 2009 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 04E551065679 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:37:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from s2m-is-001.service2media.com (rev-130-102.virtu.nl [217.114.102.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905E48FC1C for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:37:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nox-laptop.localnet ([10.0.1.45] RDNS failed) by s2m-is-001.service2media.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:25:42 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:25:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-15-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <20091124154514.GA91657@potato> In-Reply-To: <20091124154514.GA91657@potato> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911241725.42229.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Nov 2009 16:25:42.0574 (UTC) FILETIME=[C4741CE0:01CA6D22] Cc: John Subject: Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R 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: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:37:49 -0000 On Tuesday 24 November 2009 16:45:14 John wrote: > Hello list > > I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to > no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are > there gotchas because we are crossing major version numbers. > You got it right. Just the regular upgrade procedure as documented in /usr/src/UPDATING. The gotcha is that you need to rebuild all ports. If you don't do that you can run in to trouble when you later build a port. I found that usually it is fastest to just take note of which ports you need, delete all existing ports, then after the upgrade reinstall the required ports. -- Pieter de Goeje