From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 30 13:31:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-27.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85D4237B423 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:31:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9981266E07; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:31:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:30:58 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Robert Myers Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2R to 4.3R upgrade Message-ID: <20010430133058.C30680@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="w7PDEPdKQumQfZlR" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ccrider@whiterose.net on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:02:30PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --w7PDEPdKQumQfZlR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:02:30PM -0400, Robert Myers wrote: > I have a few concerns/questions about upgrading from 4.2R to 4.3R >=20 > 1. Is it necessary to upgrade due to the glob/ftpd issue, or will=20 > there be bianry fixes made availabel for 4.2R and so forth. The advisory was released some time back; read it :-) > 2. When upgrading what is the best way to avoid major weirdness, > i.e. breaking stuff left and right..... >=20 > 3. When doing a make world, what configuration files do I need to make > note of?=20 Read the handbook for the 'make world' upgrade procedure, the Right Way To Do It has some other steps in there. > 4. Does make world touch anything in /usr/local/*, i.e. any packages that > aren't will still be the same as when I installed them from 4.2R It doesn't touch anything there; most ports should be fine, except for things like lsof which have their fingers in the kernel and generally need to be recompiled each time you update. Kris --w7PDEPdKQumQfZlR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE67cuBWry0BWjoQKURAnjIAKDoETP0brOqAFeh01kmkcclDbFNEACgwUal R+7WPXgEmUTIN42mjSBJG4E= =KEBi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --w7PDEPdKQumQfZlR-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message