From owner-freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Wed Sep 9 07:42:30 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-pkg@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DC353E7CC2 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2020 07:42:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BmYrk2db3z3ccS for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2020 07:42:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 5A5E53E7CC1; Wed, 9 Sep 2020 07:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: pkg@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591973E7EF8 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2020 07:42:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from connect.ultra-secure.de (connect.ultra-secure.de [88.198.71.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BmYrj1j3gz3cKt for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2020 07:42:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (Haraka outbound); Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:40:41 +0200 Received-SPF: SoftFail (connect.ultra-secure.de: domain of ultra-secure.de does not designate 127.0.0.10 as permitted sender) receiver=connect.ultra-secure.de; identity=mailfrom; client-ip=127.0.0.10; helo=connect.ultra-secure.de; envelope-from= Received: from connect.ultra-secure.de (webmail [127.0.0.10]) by connect.ultra-secure.de (Haraka/2.6.2-toaster) with ESMTPSA id 86AF49BA-772B-4BF8-873E-740792D9734A.1 envelope-from (authenticated bits=0) (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA verify=NO); Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:40:39 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:40:38 +0200 From: rainer@ultra-secure.de To: pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Exploring the updateability of FreeBSD 8.2 -> 12.1 Message-ID: <2a78c4416eaa4bb90665075743ba7e7a@ultra-secure.de> X-Sender: rainer@ultra-secure.de User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.2.0 X-Haraka-GeoIP: --, , NaNkm X-Haraka-GeoIP-Received: X-Haraka-p0f: os="undefined undefined" link_type="undefined" distance=undefined total_conn=undefined shared_ip=Y X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on spamassassin X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Haraka-Karma: score: 6, good: 1252, bad: 0, connections: 1258, history: 1252, pass:all_good, relaying X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BmYrj1j3gz3cKt X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of rainer@ultra-secure.de designates 88.198.71.201 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=rainer@ultra-secure.de X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.68 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[ultra-secure.de]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.42)[-0.416]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.22)[-0.216]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.15)[0.153]; FROM_NO_DN(0.00)[]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:88.198.0.0/16, country:DE]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[pkg] X-BeenThere: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Binary package management and package tools discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 07:42:30 -0000 Hi, I may be in a position to have to upgrade a FreeBSD 8.2 host to a supported version (so I can install the latest packages). Obviously, this is still with the old pkg_* tools. Do I do the conversion at the end (when I'm on 12.1) or at the beginning (when I'm on 9.3)? I have my own pourdriere package builder and thanks to some hoarding, I think I still have pretty much all the packages even of 9.something, somewhere. Rainer