From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 17 13:07:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D5516A4CE; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:07:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-out-01.utu.fi (smtp-out-01.utu.fi [130.232.202.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A09443D5A; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:07:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Received: from [192.168.0.63] (perpetual.yok.utu.fi [130.232.138.155]) by smtp01.mess.utu.fi (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTPS id <0I0Z00L2GZ4RBU@smtp01.mess.utu.fi>; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:07:41 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:08:18 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen In-reply-to: <40F92085.9040500@elvandar.org> To: Remko Lodder Message-id: <40F924C2.6010401@ispro.net.tr> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 References: <1048.216.195.139.40.1090068712.squirrel@new.host.name> <40F92085.9040500@elvandar.org> cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: mrb@bmyster.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:07:43 -0000 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.