From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 27 15:13:54 2010 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 40C64106574F for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:13:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED3528FC1D for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:13:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c83-255-61-120.bredband.comhem.se ([83.255.61.120]:34180 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1OdlqJ-00063n-8X for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:13:21 +0200 Received: (qmail 65533 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2010 17:13:18 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with ESMTP; 27 Jul 2010 17:13:18 +0200 Received: (qmail 32136 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Jul 2010 17:13:18 +0200 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:13:18 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Michael Doyle Message-ID: <20100727151318.GA32104@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Originating-IP: 83.255.61.120 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1OdlqJ-00063n-8X. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1OdlqJ-00063n-8X 8bf3616bd2f5be191b25e49a7fdda7f9 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Upgrade 6.4-stable to 7.3 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, 27 Jul 2010 15:13:54 -0000 On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 03:02:48PM +0100, Michael Doyle wrote: > I would like to upgrade a server that is currently running version 6.4 > up to version 7.3 > Having looked at /usr/src/UPDATING on a 7.3 machine, I don't see any > major problems flagged. > > Given that I have console access to this machine, and I want to > preserve the user directories (it's our mail server) > would I be better off doing a source upgrade or a binary upgrade? Since you are running 6.4-STABLE, I think you will have to do a source upgrade. AFAIK binary upgrades are only supported when going from one -RELEASE to another (so 6.4-RELEASE to 7.3-RELEASE should be possible with a binary upgrade, 6.4-STABLE to 7.3-RELEASE would not.) > > In the past, I've usually done a wipe-and-reinstall when moving > between major version numbers > but I would rather avoid that this time around. > > Also, would people recommend staying with version 7.3 or jumping all > the way to version 8.1 ? Unless you have some specific reason to use 7.3 you might as well go all the way up to 8.1. You should probably do it in two steps though - first from 6.4 to 7.3 and then from 7.3 to 8.1 Just remember to make good backups first, just in case something goes wrong. (There should not be any serious problems involved - the source upgrades I have done from 6.x to 7.x and later from 7.x to 8.x were fairly uneventful - but you never know what might happen.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se