From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 13 8:52:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6684437B400 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:52:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marck@localhost) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2DGqOo90952; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:52:24 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:52:24 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: MikeM Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote updating - thank you! In-Reply-To: <200203121824000259.0061CAAB@luna.affordablehost.com> Message-ID: <20020313194720.J24654-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, MikeM wrote: M> A quick thank-you to everyone who on- and off-list answered my question M> about updating a remote FreeBSD server. My experience so far has echoed M> what was mentioned, i.e., so long as no one else is on the box and I've M> shut down all that I can, the upgrade runs without a problem. The only exclusion in the past was upgrading from 4.0 to 4.4-stable or 4.5-stable. Sometimes in the middle binary elf branding apparently changes, so make installworld dies at wrong-branded /bin/ and /sbin binaries. Having uprgaded machine in approximately 20000 km from me ;-) I'd pushed myself to hack Makefiles a bit to exclude some vital binaries from installing, install them by hand with new brandings, and then do hacked installworld. Luckily enough, the process went successfully ;-) Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message