Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:37:16 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of the 3.1 world and upgrading from earlier releases. Message-ID: <40480.919388236@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:06:17 %2B1030." <XFMail.990219120617.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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If you're trying to get ports to stay working, install also the compat22 distribution during your upgrade. - Jordan > > On 19-Feb-99 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > from releng3.freebsd.org) and choosing an upgrade installation. This > > is a faster, less error prone and extremely direct way of upgrading > > from any previous release, be it a.out OR ELF, in comparison to a > > source upgrade. It still won't result in an installation which is > > quite as "clean" as a completely fresh install, but it does work (yes, > > I've tested it :). > > Does doing an upgrade in such a fashion result in the creation of aout direct ories? or > are all your ports broken when you upgrade? :) > > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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