Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:01:52 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade from 6.4 to 9.1? Message-ID: <20130316200152.GD80810@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <5144CB0A.6010801@mykitchentable.net> References: <5144CB0A.6010801@mykitchentable.net>
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In the last episode (Mar 16), Drew Tomlinson said: > 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? You won't be able to do a straight source build from 6.4 to 9.1; too many low-level changes like Makefile syntax and compiler options have changed. If you are comfortable with temporarily disabling non-essential things that fail to build, it is definitely possible to do a long jump to 9.1, but it'd be safer to either hop from 6.4 -> (7-stable or 8-stable) -> 9 doing buildkernels and buildworlds, or just do a binary upgrade of kernel and base system to 9.1. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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