From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 29 22:21:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC4A616A400 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:21:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6600F13C494 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:21:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0TMLDXM010700; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:21:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 39891B827; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:21:13 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:21:13 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: Steve Franks Message-ID: <20070129222113.GB47897@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Franks , FreeBSD Users Questions References: <539c60b90701291344i3e927ea3l5829c5ba2c7e019a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5I6of5zJg18YgZEa" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <539c60b90701291344i3e927ea3l5829c5ba2c7e019a@mail.gmail.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: 6.2: "upgrade", or just "install" and restore rc.conf? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:21:15 -0000 --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:44:43PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > Presuming you have a 1 or 2 user system, and haven't done alot of > mods, is there any reason to "upgrade" to 6.2 as opposed to just > "install" it? Of the maybe 10 files I've modified, I have backed them > up elsewhere, and it's fresh in my mind still. The only issues I can > think of are (1) users/groups (of which I again have a whopping 2), > and I would rather use csup to update the sources and do a build/install cycle. That way you get to run mergemaster, which shows you all the changes in the configuration files, and gives you the choice to apply them or not. > (2) installed packages - this could be a problem, as I have no idea > how we (the os) "know" what's installed, and that info may or may not > be deleted on a new install. If you haven't kept your ports/packages up-to-date, it might be beneficial to make a list of all installed ports, delete all ports and build/pkg_add them all again, so that you get the latest versions.=20 > (3) sysinstall/label doesn't seem happy about putting things on an > existing slice(s) - when I fubared my 6.1 install it complained about > insufficient space until I deleted all slices on the disk. Using csup and build/install kernel/world doesn't have this problem either. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFvnNZEnfvsMMhpyURAlM+AJ0SvGZGlSZXw5hQI4WOrPmSlLPy4QCgjyOM nklKOzjuK7J0sjaAlrKf410= =PyhI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa--