From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 31 11:50:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2703F16A456 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 11:50:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dev@freedomcircle.net) Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net (vms044pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE49743D4C for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 11:50:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@freedomcircle.net) Received: from [192.169.1.2] ([71.101.6.8]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0J04007XSOWSFAQ1@vms044.mailsrvcs.net> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 06:50:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 07:51:38 -0400 From: Joe In-reply-to: <20060531004426.GA36958@xor.obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway Message-id: <447D834A.90000@freedomcircle.net> Organization: Freedom Circle, LLC MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <447B86F3.6070500@freedomcircle.net> <20060530002535.GA94917@xor.obsecurity.org> <447CB067.1080309@freedomcircle.net> <20060530213344.GA34025@xor.obsecurity.org> <447CC3C8.9020300@freedomcircle.net> <20060530222808.GA34725@xor.obsecurity.org> <447CDF69.4030704@freedomcircle.net> <20060531004426.GA36958@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg_upgrade? 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, 31 May 2006 11:50:54 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:12:25PM -0400, Joe wrote: >> The .ko files have a Nov 3 2005 date, whereas the files in /boot >> including the kernel directory have a May 6 2006 date. I take it that >> Nov 3 means 6.0-RELEASE since the announcement was done on Nov 4. So, I >> guess I'm back to the question of how to do a binary upgrade from 6.0 to >> 6.1 (and particularly where is this documented). Should I attempt >> another sysinstall Upgrade? > > Show me > > sysctl kern.version kern.version: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 root@x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Note, btw that the manpages (at least the one for sysctl) show 6.1-RELEASE at the bottom, confirming that parts of the base were indeed updated. > and the output of a failed package fetch. I'll try to send that a little later but seeing the above, shouldn't I just retry the binary upgrade and if so, what precautions should I take? I'm thinking of skipping the install of X.org so that no package conflicts turn up. Joe