From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 18 0:15: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48D4E37B479 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:15:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA13391; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:01:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:01:19 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Oliver Crow Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade techniques In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Oliver Crow wrote: > > > 1) What's the easiest way to upgrade a whole bunch of dependent packages? > > For example, when gnome-1.2 came out, I already had a previous set of > gnome packages installed. I wanted a command that would uninstall every > gnome package that I could upgrade and install the upgraded version. I > ended up doing it by hand, with a bunch of pkg_delete's, pkg_add's (and > port make's). Is there a way to manage all those dependencies in an > automated way? pkg_version may give you the information you need; but basically there's no automated way to do this, as far as I know. > > 2) In the FreeBSD release notes it says to use /stand/sysinstall to do a > binary upgrade of the system, and tells you to go read UPGRADE.TXT. In > UPGRADE.TXT it warns against using the /stand/sysinstall from your current > system, and advises use of the sysinstall from the version to which you > want to upgrade. But how do you get that program and run it, if you're > intending on doing the install over the network? > > Shouldn't the specific steps in the common operation of doing a binary > upgrade over the net be documented in the manual? You get the install floppies for the version to which you want to upgrade, boot them, and etc. Annelise > > > 3) The file on the ftp server in /branches/-current/README claims that is > the dir for 3.0-current packages. Is the README out of date? > > > > Oliver > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message