Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:48:37 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?Qm9nZGFuIMSGdWxpYnJr?= <bc@default.co.yu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It is safe to build ports for 7.0 from a 6.3 chroot? Message-ID: <47CC9C65.9090409@default.co.yu> In-Reply-To: <20080303200933.GA909@gauss.sanabria.es> References: <20080303200933.GA909@gauss.sanabria.es>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jose Garcia Juanino wrote: | Hi everybody | | Actually, I do the following in order to update from 6.3 to 7.0: | | 1) dump my actual 6.3 filesystems /, /var and /usr into three new | ones: /rel70, /rel70/usr and /rel70/var (I use the dump command, of | course) | | 2) chroot /rel70 and mergemaster -p + buildkernel + buildworld + | installkernel + installworld + mergemaster -i and such stuff | | 3) Inside the chroot, rebuild the ports | | 4) Reboot the new release | | | Will I go into problems following this approach? The step 3) is the most | dangerous, I believe, as I have executing 7.0 commands on a 6.3 kernel | (even though only for compilation). 0) Do I need to reinvent wheel? Joke off. Really, why would you try alternate way of upgrading, when there's straight way to do it? - -- Best regards, Bogdan Culibrk bc@default.co.yu http://default.co.yu/~bc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfMnD0ACgkQo6C4vAhYtCDrTwCgoHSPgIoGgltE2plO4JsQ5Bb/ R50An3hFeeBfcNIyHlRD9za8lLnI3t0v =ZGrK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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