From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 13 17: 9:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A2A37BD42; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:09:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA05857; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:09:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:09:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Andreas Klemm Cc: "Sameer R. Manek" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to update from FreeBSD 2.2.8 to RELENG_4 In-Reply-To: <20000713110456.A4811@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Andreas Klemm wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 01:55:50AM -0700, Sameer R. Manek wrote: > > Really a fresh install of 4.0, or soon 4.1 would be your best bet. > > If doing backup and restore of applications in /usr/local ... > Would they run after a fresh 4.1 installation ? It would work as well as they would if you did a source-level upgrade; specifically, some things dig into kernel memory and are thus fragile against kernel changes. But most things should just work if you install the compat22 libs. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message