From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 17 15:33:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6027A10656A9 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:33:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21BD48FC16 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:33:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB306D41B; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AA5F584528; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:33:51 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Allen References: <200910170053.52329.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> <200910170208.46267.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> <22166b750910162352r58d0eeb3t7916dc2064fb493c@mail.gmail.com> <200910170357.35767.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:33:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200910170357.35767.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> (Allen's message of "Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:57:35 -0400") Message-ID: <86tyxy3uhs.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quickie question X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:33:53 -0000 Allen writes: > Thanks for letting me know about that. I didn't know. I heard the other d= ay on=20 > here that 7.1 had a longer life cycle than 7.2 so I hadn't upgraded as I= =20 > planned on waiting for 8.0, but I guess it's time to just go ahead and=20 > upgrade. # frebesd-update -r 7.2-RELEASE upgrade After upgrading, download the ports tree: # portsnap fetch install # portupgrade -a In a month or so, do it again with 8.0-RELEASE, and run # portsnap fetch update # portupgrade -af This will rebuild *all* your ports, not just those that are out-of-date. Strongly recommended when upgrading to a new major release. BTW, this belongs on -questions, not on -chat. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no