Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:37:41 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> To: "Crucial Servers" <admin@crucialservers.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5 Message-ID: <20040310003741.6a148ff0@vixen42.> In-Reply-To: <1b5b01c40671$fe69bc70$6401a8c0@JAMES> References: <1b5b01c40671$fe69bc70$6401a8c0@JAMES>
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:33:34 -0500 "Crucial Servers" <admin@crucialservers.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I need some advice on steps for upgrading a very valueble > machine. This machine has an uptime of 393 days. I need to > install a secure version of "curl" this is our main focus right > now. FreeBSD 3.5 ports collection is very b0rked and nothing > works, I tried downloading the cvsup source and installing it, > but now it cant find m3build. > > My main focus is getting this OS to 4.9-STABLE the SAFE way and > "Yes" its a contracted machine so its remote. I know there is > going to be tons of b0rked programs when I'm all said and done. > Can someone please explain how to tackle this animal slowly, I > was thinking 4.0 then 4.5 then 4.9. > > If I can avoid this all together and install a secured version > of "curl" it would be appreaciated. I really cant find the > source anywhere. No clue what it would take to cvsup that... but what I would do is throw together a 4stable install together on another similar box and take care of all the tweakings, data importing, and ect. Then when that machines scheduled downtime/maintance/whatever arrivces swap out either the drive or the entire machine.
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