Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:25:42 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: John <comp.john@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R Message-ID: <200911241725.42229.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <20091124154514.GA91657@potato> References: <20091124154514.GA91657@potato>
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On Tuesday 24 November 2009 16:45:14 John wrote: > Hello list > > I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to > no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are > there gotchas because we are crossing major version numbers. > You got it right. Just the regular upgrade procedure as documented in /usr/src/UPDATING. The gotcha is that you need to rebuild all ports. If you don't do that you can run in to trouble when you later build a port. I found that usually it is fastest to just take note of which ports you need, delete all existing ports, then after the upgrade reinstall the required ports. -- Pieter de Goeje
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