Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:00:35 -0700 From: "Kelly Martin" <kellymartin@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: preparing for an upgrade Message-ID: <1338880b0811240900gf75fad4t1f7105af2e92da08@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081119040732.GC45210@ozzmosis.com> References: <1338880b0811181547s191b3170nefe5525f112bbcc2@mail.gmail.com> <20081119040732.GC45210@ozzmosis.com>
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:07 PM, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> wrote: > On Tue 2008-11-18 16:47:20 UTC-0700, Kelly Martin (kellymartin@gmail.com) wrote: > >> With the release of FreeBSD 6.4 imminent, I'd like to prepare for an >> upgrade from FreeBSD 6.2 -> 6.4. > > Have you considered using freebsd-update? From memory, it supports 6.2. This weekend I finally got around to trying freebsd-update on 6.2. It is there and works, but it would only update me to 6.2-RELEASE-p11. It told me 6.2 was past its end-of-life date (which I already knew). There was no obvious way to upgrade to 6.3 binaries. I checked the man page and the configuration file too. Maybe the newer version of freebsd-update allows upgrades between point versions? (ie., 6.3 -> 6.4 ?) >> I'm a little confused about different versions of the ports tree. What >> I mean is, I keep updating my FreeBSD 6.2 ports tree and have never >> had any problems... it just works. I'm assuming the 6.4 ports tree is >> a little different and specific to 6.4? > > No, there is only one ports tree shared between all FreeBSD versions. > If you already have an updated ports tree with a 6.2 installation, you > can keep using that with 6.4 (or even 7.x). Thanks very much to you and others for putting me on track about how the ports tree works! kelly
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