Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:58:19 -0500 From: Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> To: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: "B. Cook" <bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7 from 6.3 Message-ID: <8d23ec860802280958v2dae110av11d7277f8bb6e6fa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44y79555on.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <0AAFAC92-CF83-42CC-A148-FB24261A4556@poughkeepsieschools.org> <47C6EE06.4010403@bsdforen.de> <44y79555on.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> writes: > > > B. Cook wrote: > >> Hello All, > >> > >> I was going to try and update a box from 6.3 to 7 via buildworld all > >> 32 bit, nothing 64. > >> > >> Assuming it should be done like this: > >> > >> make buildworld > >> make buildkernel > >> mergemaster -p > >> make installkernel > >> (reboot) > >> (startup on 7 kernel) > >> make installworld > >> mergemaster (do full mergemaster) > >> make installworld > >> (reboot) > >> > >> (make sure all is working in 7 then do it all again; just to be sure) > >> make buildworld > >> make buildkernel > >> make installkernel > >> make installworld > >> > >> > >> Sound about right? or too redundant? > >> > >> Thanks in advance. > > > > The doing it all again part might bring some very slight performance > > improvements due to the compiler change. > > It *shouldn't* make any difference; buildworld bootstraps its own > compiler as one of the first things it does. > > None of the steps really need to be done more than once. The > redundancy as described isn't harmful, either. > _______________________________________________ You also have to recompile all your ports due to a major change in how the ports work. portupgrade -f -a
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