From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 20:46:55 2011 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 5515D106566B for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:46:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA4B8FC12 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:46:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.erewhon.net (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p6FKkGIL031020; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:46:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.erewhon.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C834ABA89; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:46:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:46:15 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Jaime Kikpole Message-ID: <20110715204615.GB12391@slackbox.erewhon.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="i0/AhcQY5QxfSsSZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading very old installation 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: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:46:55 -0000 --i0/AhcQY5QxfSsSZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 08:20:52AM -0400, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > I'm running a FreeBSD 6.x server that hasn't been updated in about 1.5 ye= ars. >=20 > atlas:~>uname -mprs > FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p8 i386 i386 > I've been using the cvsup/make method of upgrades for years and only > used freebsd-upgrade once. I'm not sure if either method can handle a > 6.x to 8.x upgrade. They are tested for upgrading to the next major version. Who knows if it wi= ll work across two major versions? Personally I wouldn't want to be the one ot try it out. :-)=20 > I also have a bunch of ports in this server (e.g. apache, postfix, > etc.) Once the OS is updated, should I just portupgrade them all? Doesn't work reliably across major version updates. When updating to a newer major version, the best way is to delete all ports (save their config files of course), scrub the /usr/local tree clean and then re-install them. Matthews advice of re-installing 8.2 on a second harddrive is probably the easiest and safest way to go.=20 Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --i0/AhcQY5QxfSsSZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4gpxcACgkQEnfvsMMhpyXjNQCcDQV91B1ojYX9dtx9BUBP3cDG QBIAn3I+CmoYfB/sn1tmUzRrW85SWmIH =817C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i0/AhcQY5QxfSsSZ--