From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 4 12:07:30 2008 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 045381065673 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:07:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc@default.co.yu) Received: from smtp1.default.co.yu (anarki.default.co.yu [87.237.201.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60C8A8FC1B for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:07:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc@default.co.yu) Received: (qmail 70678 invoked by uid 89); 4 Mar 2008 12:07:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.5.7.109?) (bc@default.co.yu@213.198.226.187) by smtp1.default.co.yu with SMTP; 4 Mar 2008 12:07:27 -0000 Message-ID: <47CD3B79.7070607@default.co.yu> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:07:21 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?Qm9nZGFuIMSGdWxpYnJr?= Organization: Default Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel References: <20080303200933.GA909@gauss.sanabria.es> <47CC9C65.9090409@default.co.yu> <200803040214.50082.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <200803040214.50082.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It is safe to build ports for 7.0 from a 6.3 chroot? 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: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:07:30 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mel wrote: | | Minimize downtime of services provided by ports? | | Jose: take a look at Tinderbox - it does exactly what you want to do: build | ports for OS release X on OS release Y, using chroot. If you're unsure about | your own method, because of OSVERSION or similar, do it using Tinderbox. | IMHO, the usual procedure described in handbook will satisfy 95% of upgrade scenarios. Others can install compat6x port right after (or before) reboot. In any case, be free to try whatever scenario works for you, but I would ~ not like to be the one who inherits server with such 'messy-upgrade' :| - -- Best regards, Bogdan Culibrk bc@default.co.yu http://default.co.yu/~bc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfNO3kACgkQo6C4vAhYtCBl3wCeKyRqqDZP/gwpu77c4+stVFal FPsAn03vkueNmyMHISoVa87NEYMzmTQo =l7iW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----