From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 21:03:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C02116A41C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 21:03:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D0DD43D46 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 21:03:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB1DA247AA; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:03:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 49912-09; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 21:03:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-176-51.eastlink.ca [24.224.176.51]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50FE5A247A9; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:03:29 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B932C3A765; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:03:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B83823A631; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:03:34 -0300 (ADT) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:03:34 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Bashar , Dan Nelson , Matt Emmerton In-Reply-To: <005701c58322$4fffad50$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Message-ID: <20050707180245.U940@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050707134652.Y940@ganymede.hub.org> <005701c58322$4fffad50$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 4.x to 5.x ... possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:03:34 -0000 On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is possible, > or have the changes become so great as to make this undesirable? The only thought/concern I have ... didn't the file system format change in 5.x? I realize 5.x would be backwards compatible with 4.x, but wouldn't going from 4.x -> 5.x via cvsup lose out on any new features as a result of the file system changes? > > Thanks ... > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Bashar wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> >> Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is possible, >> or have the changes become so great as to make this undesirable? >> >> Thanks ... >> >> ---- >> Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) >> Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 07), Marc G. Fournier said: >> Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is >> possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this >> undesirable? > > That's what the Upgrade menu item in sysinstall is for :) It'll save a > copy of /etc to a safe place then copy the passwd file back after the > install. You'll want to rebuild all your ports, but most should still > work until you do. A fresh install is always cleaner, but I've > upgraded some of my servers from 2.2.8 -> 4.* -> 5.* with no problems. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Matt Emmerton wrote: >> Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is >> possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this undesirable? > > I just upgraded a machine from 4.10 to 5.4-stable via cvsup / buildworld and > didn't run into any problems whatsoever. > /usr/src/UPDATING has a good guide for doing this migration. > > -- > Matt Emmerton > > > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664