From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 14:22:09 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 77DB816A41F for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 14:22:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95B243D45 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 14:22:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Received: from [204.147.87.125] (borg.iaces.com [204.147.87.125]) (authenticated bits=0) by iaces.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jA9EM7t0003236 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:22:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Message-ID: <437205F7.5010904@iaces.com> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:21:43 -0600 From: "Paul T. Root" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200511091324.jA9DOfxm050439@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200511091324.jA9DOfxm050439@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ? 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: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:22:09 -0000 Oliver Fromme wrote: > *********************** > This message has been scanned by the InterScan for CSC-SSM and found to be free of known security risks. > ***********-*********** > > > Pete French wrote: > > usually when I upgrade across major versions of BSD I wipe the whole > > machine and re--install from scratch. But I understand that the move > > to 6.0 from 5.4 is nowhere near such a big leap. > > > > So I was wondering hether I could just do this from source without any > > ill effects, as if I was upgrading 5.4->5.5. > > That's exactly what I did. I installed a new machine from > a 5.4-Release DVD-ROM, then updated to RELENG_5, and then > went to RELENG_6 from there. The only special thing I had > to do was to manually rm -rf /usr/obj, otherwise the build- > world broke. Oh yeah, I did rm -r the object tree, I forgot about that. It was kind of a reflex thing when it failed. > Of course you should do take the usual precautions, i.e. > have a reliable backup, read UPDATING, don't forget to run > mergemaster etc. > > Best regards > Oliver > -- ______ Paul T. Root / _ \ 1977 MGB / /|| \\ ||\/ || _ | || || || \ ||__// \______/