Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:46:19 +0200 From: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.9 CVS vs. binary? Message-ID: <3F71840B.5000102@ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20030923214255.GC76632@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20030923172654.GA4981@silvertree.org> <20030923214255.GC76632@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:26:54AM -0700, Scott Schappell wrote:
>
>>It seems that 4.9 is rapidly on its way to becoming RELEASE, which is a good
>>thing. I'm currently running 4.8-p3 on my production server, and I don't
>>have a spare to build then move over, so it will be an in place upgrade.
>>
>>Which upgrade path would be the best? CVS or installing from a binary ISO
>>CD?
>>
>>If CVS, I'm assuming I need to add *default tag=RELENG_4_9 when it's
>>released to my cvsup file to grab it, or do I need to start tracking
>>stable RELENG_4?
>>
>>My hunch is CVS will be the better way to do it, and the last time I tried
>>upgrading the system with a binary, it exploded (learned then don't do a
>>binary upgrade when it's running the kernel and multiuser, thank god for
>>backups).
>>
>>What is the recommendation of folks on this list?
>
>
> To go from RELENG_4_8 to RELENG_4_9, probably the simplest and least
> hassleful method is to cvsup the RELENG_4_9 sources, and then do a
> normal {build,install}{world,kernel} job. There's not much point in
> your tracking RELENG_4, unless you want to practice at upgrading.
Is RELENG_4_9 already available at all?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html
does not mention it. That's why i am tracking RELENG_4.
-- Heinrich
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