From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 16:55:40 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 A5CB8106578F for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:55:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@e-e.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [64.156.132.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905578FC0C for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eggman.experts-exchange.com (unknown [72.29.180.81]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0F3A4A2E97B; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by eggman.experts-exchange.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:53:29 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:53:29 -0700 From: Jason To: Tom Worster Message-ID: <20100616165329.GC90182@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p1 X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 16:55:40 -0000 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