Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:02:17 +0000 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: andreas.nemeth@aporem.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ? Message-ID: <E1EaB8D-000JBp-NN@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200511101238.30900.andreas.nemeth@aporem.net>
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> You don't have to remove the ports prior to upgrading. Just recompile them > later. Why would I want to do that though ? It gives me no advantages, and some serious disadvantages (especially if I am doing this on a 'live' system). Much easier to delete everything prior to the upgrade, and then I know that the machine is just the base system, and that none of my users are running apache, or pine, or exim or whatever - because I deleted them :-). Standard practice for me, even when going from one minor release to the next... -pcf.
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