From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 16 20:06:19 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 EF3079B6 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:06:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F7C0CC for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:06:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [172.17.17.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r2GK1rsO060672 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:01:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r2GK1qMb055918 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:01:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) id r2GK1q0m055917; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:01:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:01:52 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Drew Tomlinson Subject: Re: Upgrade from 6.4 to 9.1? Message-ID: <20130316200152.GD80810@dan.emsphone.com> References: <5144CB0A.6010801@mykitchentable.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5144CB0A.6010801@mykitchentable.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.6 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (email2.allantgroup.com [172.17.19.78]); Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:01:53 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on email2.allantgroup.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 20:06:20 -0000 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