Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:24:31 -0500 From: Richard J Kuhns <rjk@grauel.com> To: Norbert Koch <nk@LF.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: downgrade Message-ID: <15115.54831.611743.749503@moran.grauel.com> In-Reply-To: <vzofskqiy1.fsf@lamia.LF.net> References: <vzofskqiy1.fsf@lamia.LF.net>
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Norbert Koch writes: > > Hi! > > Is it possible to downgrade a machine from -current to -stable? > Yes, it's possible, but if you've got much on your system I don't think it's worth it. I (almost) did it a couple of months ago. It's not for the faint of heart. One thing that you've got to keep in mind is the bump in shared library versions; you'll probably have to reinstall anything you built yourself or via the ports system, and make sure you've removed the -current libraries (with the higher version numbers) first. After I'd spent most of a day deinstalling and reinstalling various ports, I decided it would be a lot safer and easier to just do a binary-only install from the CD, check out the latest -stable sources, and upgrade that way. If you were tracking -current before, you've got a local copy of the repository, right :-)? That's a good argument for multiple partitions, by the way. Since I have a partition for projects, one for src (both FreeBSD and /usr/ports/distfiles), and one for my mp3s I just told sysinstall to newfs /, /usr and /var but leave /home and all the rest alone. -- Richard Kuhns rjk@grauel.com PO Box 6249 Tel: (765)477-6000 \ 100 Sawmill Road x319 Lafayette, IN 47903 (800)489-4891 / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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