Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:25:20 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Bartosz Stec <admin@kkip.pl> Cc: Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>, Johan Hendriks <Johan@double-l.nl>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Going to BSD 8 from RELENG_7 Message-ID: <20090817082520.GA4448@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <4A890433.1070809@kkip.pl> References: <CF4634E4-A061-4F6C-BE4D-5209679C130E@airwired.net> <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB5DEAEB@w2003s01.double-l.local> <4A890433.1070809@kkip.pl>
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:18:11AM +0200, Bartosz Stec typed: > > > >And as usual MAKE A GOOD BACKUP !!!! > > > >Regards, > >Johan > > > As I remember when I did upgrade from FreBSD 6.4 to 7.0, I ran > 'portupgrade -afi' after thar, BUT as I remember all my ports in fact > works before they were upgraded. If I understand correctly, the reason > of this was not making delete-old and delete-old-libs? > > So should following upgrade procedure be painless? > > 0. Backup! > 1. cvsup 8.0-stable > 2. make buildworld && make buildkernel > 3. make installkernel > 4. reboot and jump to single user mode > 5. make installworld && mergemastger > 6. take a deep breath & reboot > 7. portupgrade -afi > 8. make delete-old && make delete-old-libs > 9. reboot > 10. Hooray! > > My concern is - will my ports works after point 6. ? Quite important > thing when machine can't be offline by hours during portupgrade -afi .... What do you want to hear? "Yes, all will be fine" ? There's never such guarantee. If it means that much to you, MAKE A GOOD BACKUP. And be prepared to restore it. And if the machine really can't be offline for some hours, you should have a fallback machine anyway which you could use to test it on. cheers, Ruben
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