From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 23 9:13: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from moran.grauel.com (usr1-6.mintel.net [63.81.123.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7D237B422 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 09:12:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjk@moran.grauel.com) Received: (from rjk@localhost) by moran.grauel.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4NFOWn03889; Wed, 23 May 2001 10:24:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rjk) From: Richard J Kuhns MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15115.54831.611743.749503@moran.grauel.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:24:31 -0500 To: Norbert Koch Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: downgrade In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.92 under 21.4 (patch 1) "Copyleft" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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