Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:14:40 +0100 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Garc=EDa_Juanino?=" <jjuanino@gmail.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Bogdan_=C6ulibrk?= <bc@default.co.yu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It is safe to build ports for 7.0 from a 6.3 chroot? Message-ID: <664ac2790803040614m1ee07f17k688807bdceb01bef@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200803040214.50082.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <20080303200933.GA909@gauss.sanabria.es> <47CC9C65.9090409@default.co.yu> <200803040214.50082.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On 04/03/2008, Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 March 2008 01:48:37 Bogdan Ĉulibrk wrote: > > > > 0) Do I need to reinvent wheel? > > > > > > Joke off. Really, why would you try alternate way of upgrading, when > > there's straight way to do it? > > > 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. Thank you very much for your responses. The aim is, as you comment, minimize downtime of services. Also, I want to switch back to the 6.3 release in a fast way if I find some problem running the new one. Therefore, I cannot erase the 6.3 release. Best regards
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