do folk actually successfully upgrade # uname -a FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct 1 18:41:24 GMT 2006 root@psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG i386 to RELENG_6 *safely* on a many-user production system using the instructions in UPDATING? randy
On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Randy Bush wrote:> do folk actually successfully upgrade > > # uname -a > FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct 1 > 18:41:24 GMT 2006 root@psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG i386 > > to RELENG_6 *safely* on a many-user production system using the > instructions in UPDATING?Certainly. My definition of "*safely*" means having a full backup of the system to which I can go back to if the OS version upgrade doesn't work; if you don't have a good backup, well, you can probably update from 5 to 6 just fine, but I would not consider doing so to be completely safe. -- -Chuck
> From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> > Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:39:18 -0500 > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > do folk actually successfully upgrade > > # uname -a > FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct 1 18:41:24 GMT 2006 root@psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG i386 > > to RELENG_6 *safely* on a many-user production system using the > instructions in UPDATING?I have done so on a number of systems. I updated all of our NTP servers (about a dozen of them scattered all over the country) a couple of weeks ago without any problems at all. I do have OOB console access to them. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 224 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20061019/29dfc850/attachment.pgp
On Thursday 19 October 2006 19:39, Randy Bush wrote:> do folk actually successfully upgrade > > # uname -a > FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct 1 18:41:24 GMT > 2006 root@psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG i386 > > to RELENG_6 *safely* on a many-user production system using the > instructions in UPDATING?I have... mergemaster complains quite some.. but other than that yes. -- patrick
Randy Bush wrote:> do folk actually successfully upgrade > > # uname -a > FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct 1 18:41:24 GMT 2006 root@psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG i386 > > to RELENG_6 *safely* on a many-user production system using the > instructions in UPDATING?I have did several (50+) updates from 5.4-RELEASE to a custom build of 6.1-RELEASE through a similar way that Colin has posted on his website[1]. Basically it's fairly safe to upgrade 5.4-R to 6.1-R by either src/ update (src/UPDATING) or binary update way. Note that if you want a "clean" system then you will want to do "make delete-old" and "make delete-old-libs", you are advised to install compat5x before removing the libraries. Cheers, -- Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 249 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20061019/cd1dcd89/signature.pgp
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Randy Bush wrote:> do folk actually successfully upgrade > > # uname -a > FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct 1 18:41:24 GMT 2006 root@psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG i386 > > to RELENG_6 *safely* on a many-user production system using the instructions > in UPDATING?I've upgraded both 5.x to 6.x without serious problems, or even much work. The usual advice holds: a serial console is invaluable, especially when working remotely. You're much more likely to run into application upgrade problems when you rebuild them all (or do binary updates), so you might consider updating all your applications first using portupgrade so that you can separate the issue of upgrading applications and OS. You'll have to immediately rebuild the apps again after the OS upgrade, but it will be a rebuild of the same version of an app, rather than sliding version numbers. Do make sure to boot a 6.x kernel with your 5.x userland and test things out a bit - make sure your hardware probes, is reliable, etc. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
Randy Bush wrote:
> do folk actually successfully upgrade
>
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct 1 18:41:24 GMT
2006 root@psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG i386
>
> to RELENG_6 *safely* on a many-user production system using the
> instructions in UPDATING?
Worked fine for me, except that I had to "rm -rf /usr/obj"
first which contained data from a previous RELENG_5 update.
Without doing that I got compilation errors during the
buildworld procedure.
Best regards
Oliver
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