Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:38:21 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: safe upgrade from 4.4-R to 4.6-R ? Message-ID: <20020711103820.GC5301@catflap.home.slightlystrange.or> In-Reply-To: <20020711093626.B35507@mail.esiee.fr> References: <20020711093626.B35507@mail.esiee.fr>
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:36:26AM +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hi > > I would like to safely upgrade my mailhub from 4.4-R to 4.6-R ( STABLE ? ) > because of numerous email-related softwares running on it > I cannot restart from scratch and would like to upgrade it > to the latest stable 4.6 version. > > What would be the safest way to to so whithout > disturbing 3rd party software ? > > Thanks a lot for any infos/help cvsup your source and then make buildworld etc. If you haven't done it before, I recommend trying it out on a test box, and not dive straight in to it on your production server! Find more details at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html I have never had problems with clobbering additional packages, so this should probably be exactly what you're after. It can be a bit daunting at first, but it really is a very elegant way of upgrading the whole system. HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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