From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 17 04:55:36 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 E911F106566C for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:55:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alex@stangl.us) Received: from stangl.us (stangl.us [66.93.193.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB24E8FC0C for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:55:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alex@stangl.us) Received: by scout.stangl.us (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 05DAAB854; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:55:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:55:36 -0500 From: Alex Stangl To: SA Message-ID: <20090617045535.GD78640@scout.stangl.us> References: <984490.6805.qm@web43139.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <984490.6805.qm@web43139.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd "toaster" 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: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:55:37 -0000 On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 07:04:47PM -0700, SA wrote: > This article by Colin Percival http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/binup.html discusses using freebsd-update as a "toaster" for updating an entire FreeBSD based distribution, instead of just the base system like freebsd-update normally does. Does anyone know where there might be more information on this topic? Not long ago I tried using freebsd-update to update from 6.0-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE, based upon instructions on Percival's blog, http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html It blew away the contents of /boot/kernel. Multiple emails to Percival went unanswered, and when I later asked about it on this list, the only response was a suggestion to upgrade via source. (Thanks for the suggestion, by the way -- I think I'll rather do that to stay up to date once I get caught up.) Based upon my experience and the apparent lack of current support, I would not recommend using these tools for binary updates, especially in an automated fashion. If I get some spare time and inclination, I may try to diagnose what went wrong with the freebsd-update script, but more likely will end up doing a clean install of 7.2-RELEASE from ISO onto a new drive, and migrate everything over. Alex