Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:44:56 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20071030234456.GA28409@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20071030153627.GA1005@tigerfish2.my.domain> References: <7dc35e670710291625l43902c92o5b364f84bf769811@mail.gmail.com> <20071030153627.GA1005@tigerfish2.my.domain>
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--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:36:27AM -0500, Bruce Burden wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:25:18PM -0700, Jason Slack wrote: > >=20 > > I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not= one > > to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test > > releases of 7 available now to the final release when ready? Or do you = have > > to wipe? > >=20 > From ports, you install "cvsup" and you can keep your ports > and OS source up to date. No need to do that anymore. A replacement for cvsup called csup is in the base system in 6.x. =20 > The last time a full install was preferred was going from > the 5.x release to 6.x, I believe, due to differences in GCC 3.x > and GCC 4.x. So, it rarely happens. Version 6.x still uses gcc 3.4 as the system compiler. It is 7.x that uses gcc 4.2. I've performed a source upgrade from 6 to 7 without problems. I did however remove all ports and reinstalled them from scratch, to clean out all the ports cruft. There is also some interesting advice about cleaning up your system after a source upgrade in /usr/scr/Makefile. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHJ8H4EnfvsMMhpyURAvv3AJoDe4vI5laer9nkIJmF6QTM70gN0wCfS4gM A7y4IWGLzmFxK94P60P5Aok= =5j4U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--
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