From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 23:10:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2661815294 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 23:10:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20593 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 23:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA25508 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 23:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 23:10:13 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: upgrading now to 3.2 Message-ID: <19990702231013.A25490@athena.tera.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, it's underway. Since I'm upgrading from the 4CD set I certainly ought to have everything current as of the last checkpoint in mid-May. Note that people didn't caution that the filesystem mountpoints need to be noted down somewhere along with their sizes. It cost me an extra 25 minutes, but small change if this works. A couple of things: I mounted my entire system and certainly didn't need to... . Then the upgrade holographic screen cautioned that my /usr/src would not be touched; that I would need to upgrade my sources via cvsup or ctm. Why the warning? It was ignored, and unless the script is wrong, the new 3.2 srcs were copied over! Another question to anyone from -hackers (or elsewhere): how about writing a script that handles an upgrade for people who aren't interested in changing their slices? In the many times that I've up-rev'd in the past 4 years I've only needed to change the slices once per system. Exactly twice. Seems like an intelligent sh script could save away the essentials and upgrade with the user only selecting the ports and the encryption suites. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message