Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 01:40:28 -0400 From: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: source upgrade from 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 to 4.6-stable Message-ID: <20020706054028.GE3321@laptop.lambertfam.org> In-Reply-To: <E17Qa4p-000Aa4-00@smtp.targetnet.com> References: <E17Qa4p-000Aa4-00@smtp.targetnet.com>
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On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 04:53:15PM -0400, Tim Strike wrote: > I have several older servers in the lab (4.0-release, 4.1-stable, > 4.2-stable, 4.3-beta) that I'm going to upgrade to 4.6-release and > 4.6-stable. Has anyone done a similar source upgrade and encountered > any problems? I have done several such servers recently, have not had any problems. > Any wisdom to share? Read /usr/src/UPDATING. Pay particular attention to the mergemaster parts. > I think the 4.2/4.3 upgrades should be fairly straight forward, but > the 4.0/4.1 upgrades may be more work given how comparably old those > releases are. The older they are, the more work you have to do with mergemaster. Just be careful and you will be ok. Some of the older boxes took me a half hour for the mergemaster process just because I didn't originally set the machines up and could not remember if the diffs were showing me original states or local modifications. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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