Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:38:30 +0100 From: Andreas Nemeth <andreas.nemeth@aporem.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ? Message-ID: <200511101238.30900.andreas.nemeth@aporem.net> In-Reply-To: <E1EaAau-000J6X-5X@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <E1EaAau-000J6X-5X@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Thursday 10 November 2005 12:27, Pete French wrote: > Thanks for all the comments - it sounds like it's a pretty safe thing to > do. I have one more question though - when I upgrade a machine this way I > will remove all the ports first, so it is just back to the basic system. > But Perl is now a port - should I remove this, or should I leave it alone, > i.e. is it required for the build process ? You don't have to remove the ports prior to upgrading. Just recompile them later. A "portupgrade -fa" will do the trick. I do this port-rebuild remotely using "screen" thus in case of a lost connection I can reconnect to the portupgrade output. In this case I don't upgrade screen and the command is like "portupgrade -fpa -x screen" > cheers, > > -pcf. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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