Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:00:23 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Clarification Of In Place Upgrade Process Message-ID: <4B6DBC47.8050900@tundraware.com>
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When migrating from 6.x to 7.x and to do system refreshes within a
given release branch, I did/do this:
- Get sources
- mergemaster -i
- make buildworld buildkernel
- go single user
- make installworld installkernel
- reboot
I now wish to do the same to get to the 8.x branch, BUT ... somewhere on
USENET, someone commented that you have to also reinstall/rebuild
all the packages/ports when you do this. This was news to me. Is there
some reason the entire application base has to be reinstalled when
moving to a new branch? If so, has this always been the case or is it
new for 8.x? My 6.x -> 7.x upgrade went flawlessly using the method
above without touching the ports/packages tree.
TIA,
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