From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 14:11:14 2010 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 D2A6E106564A for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:11:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org (cpc2-cmbg1-0-0-cust385.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com [82.21.105.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 881738FC08 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:11:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan by catflap.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 4.72 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1P1gKP-000Dr9-HN for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:11:13 +0100 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:11:13 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: User Questions Message-ID: <20101001141113.GD26665@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: User Questions References: <20100930155915.GA26665@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <20101001093632.GC26665@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XvKFcGCOAo53UbWW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-PGP-Fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE amd64 Sender: Daniel Bye Subject: Re: Upgrading autoconf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:11:14 -0000 --XvKFcGCOAo53UbWW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:02:10PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > Will migrate it to 8.x soon, by doing a new installation and migratin= g. > > > > > > Or should I wait for FreeBSD-9 ?? > > > > I'd go for 8.x as soon as possible. It'll be a while before 9 is ready = for > > production, and when it is released, it should be pretty straight forwa= rd > > to > > upgrade from 8.x using the standard buildworld cycle, provided your set= up > > isn't too outlandish! > > > > > Update 6.4 to 8.x?? Or you mean some upgrade path like install 8.x and t= hen > migrate services?:-) Since you're crossing two major versions, I'd go for a clean install. You could conceivably go straight to 8 using buildworld, but I think the safest and simplest course of action is to take good backups and start from scratch. As for going from 8.x to 9.x, that should be pretty easy, if, as I said, your setup isn't too far from the default. But of course, only you can make that call.=20 Dan --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --XvKFcGCOAo53UbWW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkyl7AEACgkQixf5fBYiFmol/ACfe+QedBdCBCKNlQ7xluutkcLi u6QAoNozvoozgSvF0Kq2EA4fIkG/Le5j =Umsn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XvKFcGCOAo53UbWW--