Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 15:48:42 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold <ma@absolight.fr> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: upgrading from 4.3 to 4.4 Message-ID: <3BBDBA3A.89BAD2C9@club-internet.fr>
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Hi My corporate firewall is a 4.3-RELEASE-p19, I need the newest ipfilter code, and I quite understood that there was no way to update only ipfilter, so I believe I have to go to 4.4-RELEASE. My point is that this box should not go down longer than 15/20 minutes because a lot of servers are behind and are always used. My question is can I safely update my sup file and replace RELENG_4_3 with RELENG_4_4 cvsup, then make buildworld, kernel, installworld and mergemaster. Or should I burn a 4.4-RELEASE CD and use it to do a binary upgrade (which is the only kind of upgrade I've ever done). As far as I understand, cvsup and make would be the best way to get the max uptime as I'll just have to reboot to use the new kernel and after the mergemaster. I'd also like to know if I can burn my cd, mount it, launch the sysinstall on the cd and do a binary upgrade while the system is in use (I believe not, but who knows:). I do have to upgrade because I believe there is a memory leak somewhere in the kernel, and I'd like to get the latest version before complaining to someone (see http://www.absolight.fr/mat/ipf/ which is some graphs of ipf values and M_TEMP usage). -- Mathieu Arnold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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