Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:19:43 +0200 From: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange issues while upgrading ports Message-ID: <4ED0E76F.20603@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ED0A9CD.4030303@rdtan.net> References: <4ECF6A90.9020906@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1111251410550.4035@yokozuna.lan> <CA%2Bt49PJAD81MU5Rq=GCOdnpzsqm0WOB7Az2OJ%2BmGvLT_00abPA@mail.gmail.com> <4ECF9E78.6000602@gmail.com> <CA%2Bt49PJPgZJvUY7DCRgwiwU%2BcbodyFpS51wUTYL2vSLn=25juw@mail.gmail.com> <4ECFA2AC.3020209@gmail.com> <4ED0A9CD.4030303@rdtan.net>
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On 11/26/2011 10:56 AM, Edward wrote: > On 11/25/11 10:14 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: >> Would you also advise to upgrade my BSD 'release'? >> > The FreeBSD Handbook have a section covering it : > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html > > My personal experience : > http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2009/07/freebsd-how-to-upgrade-kernel-or-base.html > > *** disclosure, that's my blog. Thank you - nice blog! :-) Also pretty much the approach I am taking, just nice to see that the approach is valid and already tested and tried by more experienced people. >> If so I would upgrade to 8.2 as stated in a previous posting but since >> I'm running jails and many services aggregated into one machine, what's >> the best way to proceed? >> >> I'm currently just backing up /etc, /var, /usr/shared, /usr/local/etc, >> /usr/local/var, and /usr/local/shared. >> > Don't forget /usr/jails, that's where your jails live. Actually all my jails are custom. I have them in /mnt/zfs/jail as I run them from my ZFS mount. However, I guess not to loose the information residing in them I probably should back them up too. > >> Will the freebsd-upgrade tool wipe all my config files? Or will the >> upgrade be seamless? > You might wanna try freebsd-update on a box with customize config files > (e.g. /etc/hosts, /etc/ssh/sshd_config or blah blah blah) to have a feel > on how mergemaster works on merging config files. It took me a few > upgrade tries to get familiar with it. In general, if you've backup the > configs in /etc& /usr/local/etc, you can always restore the working > copy back and your services shouldn't fail :) Unfortunately I don't have another box to test on unless I use a VM in VirtualBox on my notebook. Luckily I have backups now of all config file directories including /usr/share and /usr/local/share so I hope that I won't get in to deep-stuk if everything goes khabluey! It will just take ages as I kinda run the system as a sort of mainframe with 7 jails and many, many services. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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