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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:53:29 -0700
From:      Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com>
To:        Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <20100616165329.GC90182@eggman.experts-exchange.com>
In-Reply-To: <C83E7883.1821B%fsb@thefsb.org>
References:  <C83E7883.1821B%fsb@thefsb.org>

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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:48:03PM -0400, Tom Worster thus spake:
>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)


http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html 

Instructions for using freebsd-update are found in the announcement, and
what more needs to be done in moving from one release to another major
branch.

-j



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