From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 10 0:48:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DDDE14DEF for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:47:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id KAA76159; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:43:29 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:43:29 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Ben Jackson Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrade issue from 2.2.x -> 3.2 Message-ID: <19990910104328.C59335@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Ben Jackson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199909100500.WAA00530@pulsar.ben.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199909100500.WAA00530@pulsar.ben.com>; from Ben Jackson on Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:00:46PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:00:46PM -0700, Ben Jackson wrote: > I just did that upgrade (been with freebsd since 1.1!) and everything > seems pretty smooth. I did a 2.2->3.1 upgrade on another machine so > I'm probably glossing over some aout issues (mainly that you have to > find them and move them into a separate directory). > > One thing that confused me for several days and I just figured out: > sysctl moved from /usr/sbin to /sbin. I have /usr/sbin in my path first, > so I was getting to old one. It almost works, but not quite. It only > displays about 15 `kern.' variables and then quits. > > Perhaps the upgrade option should at least warn of that possibility > (maybe obvious, but somewhat unexpected) or even include a list of files > that once existed in FreeBSD but no longer do (to facilitate removing > them). I'm thinking about digging out a 2.2.x install cd to build that > list for myself. > Just `make installworld DESTDIR=/fresh-install' and check it against your /. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message