From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 5 22:50:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620B537B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.lambertfam.org (www.lambertfam.org [216.223.196.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E1643E42 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:50:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.inch.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3D9350A2 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 01:49:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org (unknown [10.1.0.2]) by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9112834FC1 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 01:49:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4650D28B09; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 01:40:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 01:40:28 -0400 From: Scott Lambert 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> Mail-Followup-To: stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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