Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:32:10 +0100 From: Brian Josefsen <bj@cold.dk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade, portupgrade or not ? Message-ID: <45EEF71A.2060800@cold.dk> In-Reply-To: <20070307050719.M2006@pukruppa.net> References: <1173186432.20605.10.camel@localhost> <20070307050719.M2006@pukruppa.net>
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P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, jbousseau wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I actually got a FreeBSD 5.4 for Mail server ( postfix+imp+horde) , and >> DNS server with bind. >> I really hesitate to upgrade my ports and my BSD because the >> configuration of IMP+horde+php is a real mess. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> What are your advices about it ? >> >> Pls notice i'm not a Bsd specialist. Thanx > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Under these special circumstances: > Don't mess around with your running system. > Do a completely fresh install on an extra machine > and exchange the old one, when the new is up and > running. Or upgrade base to 5.5 so you wont fall to much behind the supported releases, it shouldn't affect your ports or installed application, and then setup a jail and slowly migrate while you do continously testing, it always works for me. In general it's always getting very suddenly messy when your fall way behind releases. -- Best regards Brian Josefsen
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