From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 16 19:42:30 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E101569E for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:42:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from rc2.surewest.net (rc2.surewest.net [66.60.130.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99BEF7F for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp2.surewest.net ([66.60.130.145]) by rc2.surewest.net ({af05c03d-e86d-4922-90cb-b2bd72ac7e37}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20130316194212500 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:42:12 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from smtpauth.surewest.net (smtpauth.surewest.net [66.60.130.153]) by smtp2.surewest.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0594289E48 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:42:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (mykitchentable.net [69.62.230.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtpauth.surewest.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DB6629C0E8 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (tagalong-II.mykitchentable.net [192.168.1.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B895416553E for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:42:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=mykitchentable.net; s=default; t=1363462931; bh=SmKcqPfQCZcHNif09hrQV+X35S8qQL+yZiyGyJlQPvM=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Esm/QanvyL/wtx+K+OjR3C5x7FgYAZf0Su/8mZ+fq/QMnXg5cIMDDgA4d/0Gw8+9B M9mwnf6f65R8abX3D+yfkJ2ZV99Nxs9rrEXtxpSyB98gWBWBJWGHrCO/PegsNI0r5t 2fgYJINJbtUxdsfR4rA3mGejMO62XoWpuwscVmlU= Message-ID: <5144CB0A.6010801@mykitchentable.net> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:42:02 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrade from 6.4 to 9.1? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130316-0, 03/16/2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-MAG-OUTBOUND: surewest.redcondor.net@66.60.130.145/32 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:42:30 -0000 I have an old system happily running 6.4 but am finding that it can no longer download or build a ports index. Thus I guess it's time to upgrade. What "gotchas" do I need to look out for? In the past my upgrades have always been simply downloading new source, reviewing kernel config file, and then rebuilding the system. Any ports that didn't work after that I would just rebuild as well. However I've never waited this long to upgrade. Do I need to do anything different? Thanks, Drew -- Like card tricks? Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse to learn card magic secrets for free! http://alchemistswarehouse.com