Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:08:18 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> To: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x Message-ID: <40F924C2.6010401@ispro.net.tr> In-Reply-To: <40F92085.9040500@elvandar.org> References: <1048.216.195.139.40.1090068712.squirrel@new.host.name> <40F92085.9040500@elvandar.org>
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Remko Lodder wrote: > Brent Bailey wrote: > >> Hello, >> My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd >> systems that are pretty old. The customer is running a file server samba >> also running apache running FBSD 4.2, he wants to upgrade using cvsup & >> the make buildworld procedure to upgrade to 5.x. Im very familier with >> the >> make buildworld procedure however there have been significant changes >> between 4.2 & 5.x so is this something that can be done without many >> problems ? Aside from reading throught the /usr/src/UPDATING file are >> there things i should look out for being that the 2 versions are so >> differrent. I believe the only reason to upgrade to 5.x would be if you need a feature in 5.x versions which doesnt exist in 4.x versions. Otherwise it is best to use 4.x-stable.
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