From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 5 19:55:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60267106566C for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 19:55:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rbgarga@gmail.com) Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63F58FC1F for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 19:55:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rbgarga@gmail.com) Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n8so274161gve.39 for ; Tue, 05 May 2009 12:55:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=oo0N/YN0RNmgiooQy42pHKjOqgwEvhkfJcXioU7qqlk=; b=nGdzcRwRbWspTfjqTF3z5I9LZKJGF1X++SvXYawZtdx8PvbJvY8nYWCmHth5ls/Y83 yhH9f1s5J1WIY0IMfPXcSxm1UYB+RgoJkP1UxLlCe5rFWiv4/mB2clXvVQjPitkp3+JG 1IHJrkfSj++MUhfoIvpUNBxLWuB2z3/n6JeYA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aklZqwGLDNtfCWJJmqNjmKxrLxvXedY4BpHwO45dG+HY4x2ax2dUiBvQaZqo+xzQKi wK6CEwLEyC5korIbzQS3sfD0s87XmFt5vjjlzgAvqO1nDhHg7Pha8aLPrOSwUu31OLKC 3jU6wqrmiWxoNoNtELMyHqVYxi45GLsfoQVA8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.75.199 with SMTP id z7mr722256vcj.112.1241553330166; Tue, 05 May 2009 12:55:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87ljpbwi5v.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <000001c9cd85$afe53b70$0fafb250$@org> <87ljpbwi5v.fsf@kobe.laptop> From: Renato Botelho Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 16:55:15 -0300 Message-ID: <747dc8f30905051255j79b11662v716c2456c01d2b8a@mail.gmail.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Paul Stewart Subject: Re: 7.1 to 7.2 upgrade question X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 19:55:32 -0000 On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2009 09:30:41 -0400, "Paul Stewart" = wrote: >> Hi there. >> >> As I'm slowly getting used to FreeBSD (again), I recently upgraded >> three boxes to 7.2-RELEASE. =A0Two 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? =A0I 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. =A0It will usually be much > faster than compiling everything from source. I don't know if it's officially supported, but I did an hybrid upgrade using freebsd-update for the base and building the custom kernel from sources, it worked fine and is still much faster than build everything. --=20 Renato Botelho