Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 20:53:16 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Paul Stewart" <paul@paulstewart.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.1 to 7.2 upgrade question Message-ID: <87ljpbwi5v.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <000001c9cd85$afe53b70$0fafb250$@org> (Paul Stewart's message of "Tue, 5 May 2009 09:30:41 -0400") References: <000001c9cd85$afe53b70$0fafb250$@org>
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On Tue, 5 May 2009 09:30:41 -0400, "Paul Stewart" <paul@paulstewart.org> wrote: > Hi there. > > As I'm slowly getting used to FreeBSD (again), I recently upgraded > three boxes to 7.2-RELEASE. Two of them were running 7.1-RELEASE and > one was running 7.2-RC2 .. > > Anyways, I used freebsd-update to upgrade - in my previous experiences > I would have to do a "make world" etc. etc. > > Which method is most preferred - source or binary upgrading? I don't > mind source upgrading but is it really necessary anymore if using > freebsd-update on a regular basis? If you don't need local patches or a custom kernel, and you can use the GENERIC kernel configured to match your hardware setup, then it probably makes a lot of sense to use freebsd-update. It will usually be much faster than compiling everything from source.
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