From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 3 21:43:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E031065673 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 21:43:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F5B8FC29 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 21:43:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-249-33.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.249.33]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 076241F086; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 23:43:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id o53LhLB7002515; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 23:43:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 23:43:21 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Andy Hiscock Message-Id: <20100603234321.06784375.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <68898.63609.qm@web26105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <929158.22715.qm@web26105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <125527.66409.qm@web26103.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <68898.63609.qm@web26105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:43:23 -0000 On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:29:28 +0000 (GMT), Andy Hiscock wrote: > Why during the upgrade process the "inspecting system" shouldnt > be able to find and identify and prepair everything that needs > to be upgraded and reconfigured accordingly. Because this is the responsibility of the administrator - to decide WHAT to upgrade, WHY and WHEN, and even HOW. The base system tools (such as sysinstall, freebsd-upgrade) do not have any clue about what's going on in /usr/local. This subtree is reserved for installed applications (that do NOT belong to the base system). There are two files you should ALWAYS have a look at when performing an update: /usr/src/UPDATING /usr/ports/UPDATING They continue very important information for the person who does the administration for a particular system, e. g. it tells you that libxyz has gotten a major update and all applications linked to this library need to be recompiled. > Surely thats what "Inspecting system" is meant to be doing. I could come up with hundreds of other ideas what "Inspecting system" could mean. :-) > No matter if it is FreeBSD 1.0 or the prior version to the upgrade -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...