From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 16:48:07 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 540CA1065675 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:48:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp114.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp114.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1558FC1A for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:48:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay31.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay31.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 720391B4250 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:48:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by relay31.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id 2D9271B4242 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:48:06 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.10.0.080409 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:48:03 -0400 From: Tom Worster To: Message-ID: Thread-Topic: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE? Thread-Index: AcsNc6+tsxcvY7wrpUeuFZTOzynBcg== Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE? 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, 16 Jun 2010 16:48:07 -0000 as usual i let things slip until the servers are a couple of versions behind and then i face the worries of upgrading. will freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade work on a 7.1-RELEASE system or do i need to take intermediate steps? does anyone have experience or advice they'd be willing to share? and if all goes well, when i boot 8.0 are my deamons going to start and be happy: Server version: 5.0.87 FreeBSD port: mysql-server-5.0.87 Sphinx 0.9.8.1-release (r1533) Server version: Apache/2.2.13 (FreeBSD) PHP 5.2.11 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Nov 20 2009 16:10:58)