Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:08:56 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Jim Keller <freebsd@contexthosting.net> Subject: Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6 - Make world or binary install? Message-ID: <200510110908.58908.thierry@herbelot.com> In-Reply-To: <434B6102.2050608@samsco.org> References: <434B601F.40007@contexthosting.net> <434B6102.2050608@samsco.org>
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Le Tuesday 11 October 2005 08:51, Scott Long a écrit : > Upgrading from 5.4 to 6.0 is very easy. I did it last weekend on my > firewall+mailserver with just the normal upgrade procedures. The only > gotcha that I can think of is the renamed serial ports. > > Scott I had crashes with some KDE apps (akkregator or amarok, for example) after upgrading a 5.4 station via buildworld/buldkernel (+ portupgrade -fa), which disappeared after I installed a new 6.0 with a new set of packages. TfH PS : I installed the "new", clean 6.0 and associated packages within a jail running from the hybrid 5.4/6.0. I could install and setup the new OS and packages without interrupting work on the currently installed 5.4/6.0 hybrid.
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