From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 14 10:44:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB15337B718 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:44:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f2EIiDa94786; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:44:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200103141844.f2EIiDa94786@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Sean Chittenden Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: Update UPDATING for upgrade path from 3.4 (was Re: Major upgrade)... References: <000e01c0ac9d$abd50040$fd03a8c0@ws001> <20010314101415.B48101@rand.tgd.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:14:15 PST." <20010314101415.B48101@rand.tgd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:44:13 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've done this upgrade a few times and tried going from 3.4 -> > 4.X: not so smooth. In fact, big sink whole for time, however, 3.4 -> > 3.5-STABLE -> 4.X works very nicely. Having spent a chunk of time > upgrading 30+ boxes, going to 3.5 works well, but takes more time than > backing up and restoring after a fresh 4.X build. ::grin:: > > At anyrate, would it be possible to have someone not this in > UPGRADING? 3.4 -> 4.X == bad, but 3.4 -> 3.5 -> 4.X == good? It > would've saved me a large chunk of time, esp since the only doc I > found that had a hit of this was Ralf's email (very useful, btw. > Thanks!). -sc It's not *required* that you upgrade from sources. I upgraded an ancient 3.0-CURRENT machine to 4.2 by doing a binary "upgrade" from the 4.2 CDROM. Many of the bootstrapping issues are avoided in this way. From there, I could rebuilt applications as required, do a 'make buildworld' to stay "stable", etc. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message