Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:57:51 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: andrea <staff@linet.it> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading from 2.1..X. Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9812292244260.31622-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <007301be3e21$b2102d00$4d18b9c2@oma.linet.it>
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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, andrea wrote: > I need to upgrade my pre-2.2 FreeBSD system to current distrib. > There are many services on this system (like named,squid,httpd and so on)and > i wonder if is possible > to upgrade it in a 'soft' way (e.g. without have to stop the services for a > long time) > > So if i first upgrade the kernel,can i still use older binaries or i must > recompile the whole tree in one shot? It is unlikely to work upgrading from source from such an old system (there are even problems upgrading from 2.2 systems, as witnessed by recent mailing list traffic). Your best bet by far is to do a binary upgrade (either from a 3.0 CD, or using the distribution off the net). The big change between 3.0 and older versions is in the executable format (ELF vs. a.out for the older versions). This should not affect you unless you recompile software, in which case it will be produced in ELF format instead of a.out (in particular. ELF libraries are not linkable against a.out executables and vice versa). If you haven't updated your ports in a while then you might want to do this, however. If you are upgrading a production server, you may want to reconsider; 3.0-CURRENT is not a suitable environment for "critical" servers, and should only be used by the experienced (please see the handbook). 3.0.1-RELEASE (and with it, the 3.0-STABLE branch) is due for release in late January - you might be better off postponing your upgrade until then. Kris ------ (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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