From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jan 28 01:52:23 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B75C3A6F05A for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 01:52:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xxjack12xx@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x231.google.com (mail-wm0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 522EF1DED for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 01:52:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xxjack12xx@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x231.google.com with SMTP id n5so5587172wmn.1 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:52:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=/gkzzXlijjkvwEf2GJoWmxsSeLfvvGUOUwmnbS5gbcM=; b=JWvxtdHGdyDITIGdexUVR7kzmfH3WlPOX7+jSJDUqh3gaCa4ag5ATOLA4ng+yMKPff cCeODwD9kOKyFOpjSxa0pCEztdigmp6Eeb7rKys8Q2Coet4+Mg3qtGnAwWlE6k5Ed7rY WaR2ljWmrgMCVzqtjoWHks+mYe1cRP3jmq2+4Rp6ZS8Hfzghn9S322KjACpyg+uVTMm3 79iDKYHD3DBttbIIbQmy3/1Ttgggtm2CHm+Xn/pELrZrx8BljexFsriSfn4fPeOYiJxZ e1EkNtc+TYO5TodiBwuRRnj2etupwUf94OWvij6GxcJ5m3dJTG52PuzQB9i3cru+HONl cZ0g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=/gkzzXlijjkvwEf2GJoWmxsSeLfvvGUOUwmnbS5gbcM=; b=m/37wp2NTyiVD3aXZIHz5oHGdw9TVK+kDEV/60NP2/UBgDea+4fKaMLEU9elCHFvhW DOhiJ+9DtKaR2qJLzYkFKTIQ4tkeO8va5lkBc1L8aCjTKc89J49/16jkw7Mmpx8+8wRP Eub9yt0uREs7jnWm7EkyRN6zRJNx4TubiQKT3naVw8y1aXSd6naPnv1HB3remNXyiu+T L9G9sQbtaM93Pv3rcgBYcMypfEo29E5Q8He8VNttAtg3uhXeO5q88vVmFaSNReuTde1s +v1xfSNRPdJIzftGu9kM2zovPhyBdEe49Wj0D8Ek7PFdQ2QpEyY/1A8sXdaLv1hpY+vk RaPA== X-Gm-Message-State: AG10YOQ+4te8ZiKKU9Q9R18RGGl3xtGFK50lEBHHbeYgyeb6RL4kFthztKhFwod+xkLYwxX3iUz8HvWffc6MVA== X-Received: by 10.194.203.99 with SMTP id kp3mr312584wjc.3.1453945941023; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:52:21 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.194.153.67 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:51:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20160128085803.30621c2a@X220.alogt.com> References: <20160128074558.0a5c43d1@X220.alogt.com> <20160128085803.30621c2a@X220.alogt.com> From: "Jack L." Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:51:41 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Can I upgrade 9.1 straight to 10.2? To: Erich Dollansky Cc: Ross , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 01:52:23 -0000 On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:23:16 -0800 > "Jack L." wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Erich Dollansky >> wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:23:18 +0200 >> > Ross wrote: >> > >> >> I have a server with an old installation of FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE. >> >> Can I just download 10.2 sources and do installworld and >> >> installkernel there? >> >> >> >> Or should I install all the releases in between one by one? >> > >> > it is very simple. Make a backup, make a snapshot, download the >> > latest sources. Just be careful with mergemaster. I would do it by >> > hand. >> > >> > If you can't compile the latest sources on the old machine, go to >> > 10.0 first. I do not think that you have to go through all releases >> > between. 10.0 might be the only obstacle. >> > >> > Erich >> >> I upgrade remotely all the time and it's worked fine for me every >> time. > > of course, if you do it all the time. His problem might be the new > compiler in 10. I see his problem randomly when upgrading older > machines. As my standard procedure is then to go by the xx.0 releases > until I am there, I never tried to figure out which revision might has > caused the problem. > > Erich I upgraded my 9.2-STABLE machine to 10.1-STABLE by doing a make buildworld&&make kernel&&make installworld procedure and didn't run into any issues.