Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:40:21 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <4C1A25C5.80108@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <C83F9047.18273%fsb@thefsb.org> References: <C83F9047.18273%fsb@thefsb.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 13:41:43, Tom Worster wrote: > On 6/16/10 1:06 PM, "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> > would the order to do things be: update ports with portsnap, install > misc/compat7x, upgrade with freebsd-update and reboot? You need to be running 8.0 or above before you can install compat7x, so it's upgrade with freebsd-update, reboot, install compat7x, either reboot again, or restart any daemons that didn't start first time. I think. I'm assuming freebsd-update zaps the 7.x shlibs when you do a 7.x -> 8.0 upgrade, BICBW. >> Oracle pushing to drop support for MySQL 5.0) so a bit of forethough and >> planning is advised, but there's no real deal-breaker there. > > this has been a vexing concern for some considerable time now. but it's > perhaps out of scope here. if we had better insight into where oracle is > taking it... I think it's pretty clear that Oracle are going to maintain MySQL as a freely available database product for the foreseeable future. They are keen to get as many people as possible onto the current release though, so 5.0 is being deprecated in favour of 5.1, and 5.5 is rapidly approaching. 5.1 is pretty much a super-set of 5.0 so you're not likely to have to do any more than run some regression tests to show your schema and SQL still works correctly. >> Also, if you wait for a few weeks you could go directly to 8.1-RELEASE, >> which might be a better choice. There have been some pretty significant >> bugfixes between 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE. > > bug fixes sound nice. a few weeks you say? Probably more like a month, actually. The schedule is here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/schedule.html but it's not unusual for the release to be delayed as RE team work on ensuring it is of the required quality. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwaJcUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxNigCeNis4YIVeOSk21wizLxNSs+g+ LVQAn0xKxdN/G0Fpjewk4+UJvEznPm30 =4FQM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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