Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this undesirable? Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html Marc G. Fournier wrote:> > Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is > possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this > undesirable? > > Thanks ... > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services > (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: > 7615664 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
In the last episode (Jul 07), Marc G. Fournier said:> Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is > possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this > undesirable?That's what the Upgrade menu item in sysinstall is for :) It'll save a copy of /etc to a safe place then copy the passwd file back after the install. You'll want to rebuild all your ports, but most should still work until you do. A fresh install is always cleaner, but I've upgraded some of my servers from 2.2.8 -> 4.* -> 5.* with no problems. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
> Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is > possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this undesirable?I just upgraded a machine from 4.10 to 5.4-stable via cvsup / buildworld and didn't run into any problems whatsoever. /usr/src/UPDATING has a good guide for doing this migration. -- Matt Emmerton