From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 14:52:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38390151DF for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 14:52:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29296; Fri, 28 May 1999 14:52:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:52:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Ritwik Bhattacharya Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux_libs 2.6.1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 May 1999, Ritwik Bhattacharya wrote: > I just downloaded the latest linux libs. I already have an older version > (2.4) installed on my bsd box running 2.2.8-RELEASE. Should I just extract > the new tarball over the old one, or remove the old one first ? Current Best Practice is to pkg_delete the old one, then install the new one. > Also, I've > downloaded the sources for 3.2-STABLE. Is it ok to upgrade directly from > 2.2.8 - 3.2, or should I go via 3.0 ? I'd suggest going by 3.1 instead. 3.0 and 3.1 are different animals. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message