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Date:      Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:07:05 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Marc "UBM" Bocklet <ubm@u-boot-man.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: status of 7.0
Message-ID:  <p06240800c2b70f7a9aeb@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20070708132545.5604cbe9.ubm@u-boot-man.de>
References:  <8cdf6c720707070710k2b7e030v37683e460d983bf9@mail.gmail.com> <20070708111105.C9997@fledge.watson.org> <20070708132545.5604cbe9.ubm@u-boot-man.de>

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At 1:25 PM +0200 7/8/07, Marc "UBM" Bocklet wrote:
>
>I'd like to do some testing, but I'm a little bit afraid of the upgrade
>procedure 6.2-stable to -current. Is it possible to do a simple upgrade
>if I follow the guidelines in UPGRADE or are there any hidden caveats?
>(like "you've to recompile all installed ports", etc. :-))

For what it's worth, I just recently upgraded one of my i386 machines.
I first upgraded to the latest snapshot of 6.2-stable, and then I went
from there to 7.x-current.  I just did that on Friday, so I can't say
that I've tested everything yet.  But so far I haven't had any problems.

One note: when you build the new 7.x kernel on a 6.x system, you'll
see a number of scary-looking warning messages about:

       "kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked"

but you can ignore those.  If those are the only warnings that you
see, then your kernel is probably fine.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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