hi all, i keep seeing comments such as "upgrading across major versions is not recommended for mere mortals". so what the hell are 'mere mortals' such as myself supposed to do when we want to upgrade across major versions? cheers iain
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:23:05AM +0000, Iain Dooley wrote:> hi all, i keep seeing comments such as "upgrading across major versions is > not recommended for mere mortals". so what the hell are 'mere mortals' such > as myself supposed to do when we want to upgrade across major versions?Use sysinstall to do a binary upgrade, or carefully follow the directions in the handbook. Kris -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050424/49a26afd/attachment.bin
>> maybe i'll hold off for a little while. it's such a pain having to wait for >> everything to build from source. kde takes forever, so you leave the house >> but when you come back there is one of those configuration options screens >> for some obscure package with bunch of options like "Enable Lib GSSD >> Compatibility" that mean absolutely nothing to me. meanwhile i can't use my >> PC.> You can usually avoid that with make -DBATCH=yes. With portupgrade it > would be portupgrade -m -DBATCH=yes.> Usually, that will, if there are options, choose the defaults, which are > reasonable. You can put BATCH=yes in /etc/make.conf (see > /etc/defaults/make.conf) but of course, what happens then is that you > install something where you ~really~ didn't want the defaults. :)okay that's great advice, thanks. iain