From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 11:08:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C7E106566B for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:08:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eagletree@hughes.net) Received: from smtprelay.b.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0061.b.hostedemail.com [64.98.42.61]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 609978FC20 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:08:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eagletree@hughes.net) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (b-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay04.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 63F3C2632F9F for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:08:27 +0000 (UTC) X-SpamScore: 1 X-Spam-Summary: 2, 0, 0, 0e628b0141742273, 9510f55e4507d164, eagletree@hughes.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, RULES_HIT:355:379:541:564:599:601:960:966:967:973:980:988:989:1042:1260:1261:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1766:1792:1981:2196:2199:2393:2525:2552:2553:2559:2563:2682:2685:2689:2693:2857:2859:2933:2937:2939:2942:2945:2947:2951:2954:3022:3027:3353:3865:3866:3867:3868:3869:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:3876:3877:3934:3936:3938:3941:3944:3947:3950:3953:3956:4250:4321:4362:4385:4860:5007:6114:6119:7652:7679:7903:8501:9010:9025, 0, RBL:none, CacheIP:none, Bayesian:0.5, 0.5, 0.5, Netcheck:none, DomainCache:0, MSF:not bulk, SPF:, MSBL:none, DNSBL:none Received: from [192.168.0.3] (dpc6744118153.direcpc.com [67.44.118.153]) (Authenticated sender: eagletree@hughes.net) by omf13.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chris Pratt Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:08:16 -0700 To: FreeBSD-Questions Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) X-session-marker: 6561676C6574726565406875676865732E6E6574 Subject: Re: cvsup to 7.0 from 5.5? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:08:29 -0000 On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:06 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: > On 10/22/08, Chris Pratt wrote: >> >> How risky is it to jump directly to 7.0 on a 5.5 system? >> Upgrade would be by cvsup. I expect mergemaster >> issues anyway but this system is relatively vanilla in >> it's configuration. It's duty is just rsyncing other servers. >> The kernel is GENERIC minus drivers plus ipfw and there are >> no kldloads. Can this jump be made? I was hoping to avoid >> having to make two major release jumps by doing only one. >> >> Thanks >> > > Not really a bed of roses. > Its a thorny road. You will stumble with packages then gcc version > then > make.conf then cvsup itself. > > Cannot really remember exact thorny issues but I can tell that it > is not > straight path. Rather Install 7.0 directly then migrate the data. > Thanks for the time to respond. That was enough for me. I'm half-way to a 6.3 installation, then will take it to 7.0. It's surprising that I could find no specifics of the issues, only references that it wasn't a good idea. > > -- > Aftab Jahan Subedar > CEO/Software Engineer > Subedar Technologies Ltd > Subedar Baag Bibir Bagicha #1 > North Jatra Bari > Dhaka 1204 > Bangladesh > 88027554546 > 8801552635208 > 8801191336608 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >