From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 1 13:59:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-66.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070F637B422 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:59:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B3F6D675B2; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:59:18 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Chris Shenton Cc: Kris Kennaway , Raymond Brighenti , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hints and tips for upgrading from 3.2 to latest release Message-ID: <20010601135918.A87625@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010601114404.018af770@mail.webfront.net.au> <20010531191331.B13040@xor.obsecurity.org> <87wv6wjbgu.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FCuugMFkClbJLl1L" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <87wv6wjbgu.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org>; from chris@shenton.org on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:34:25PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:34:25PM -0400, Chris Shenton wrote: > Kris Kennaway writes: >=20 > > Don't bother trying to upgrade by recompiling source, it's much more > > trouble than it's worth. Just do a binary upgrade and it should all > > just work. >=20 > This may sound lame, but is the binary upgrade (presumably via > /stand/sysinstall) something that can be done over the net? Or when > it replaces my ssh, X11, etc, will my connection die as the old binary > or its libraries get replaced? >=20 > I'd prefer to be in front of the console of course, but sometimes it's > not possible. You could do it, but I really don't recommend it :-) Kris --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7GAImWry0BWjoQKURAitvAJ4tNkprVrw67UhBC+iPjWqo2+LWRQCeOOra VXChZ2SQJWzAt3cYCoN4XQ8= =S/X2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message