From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 4 00:48:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F021065677 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 00:48:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc@default.co.yu) Received: from smtp1.default.co.yu (mx1.default.co.yu [87.237.201.136]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 860A78FC25 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 00:48:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc@default.co.yu) Received: (qmail 49301 invoked by uid 89); 4 Mar 2008 00:48:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.5.7.109?) (bc@default.co.yu@213.198.226.187) by smtp1.default.co.yu with SMTP; 4 Mar 2008 00:48:42 -0000 Message-ID: <47CC9C65.9090409@default.co.yu> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:48:37 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?Qm9nZGFuIMSGdWxpYnJr?= Organization: Default Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20080303200933.GA909@gauss.sanabria.es> In-Reply-To: <20080303200933.GA909@gauss.sanabria.es> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: It is safe to build ports for 7.0 from a 6.3 chroot? 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: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:48:47 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jose Garcia Juanino wrote: | Hi everybody | | Actually, I do the following in order to update from 6.3 to 7.0: | | 1) dump my actual 6.3 filesystems /, /var and /usr into three new | ones: /rel70, /rel70/usr and /rel70/var (I use the dump command, of | course) | | 2) chroot /rel70 and mergemaster -p + buildkernel + buildworld + | installkernel + installworld + mergemaster -i and such stuff | | 3) Inside the chroot, rebuild the ports | | 4) Reboot the new release | | | Will I go into problems following this approach? The step 3) is the most | dangerous, I believe, as I have executing 7.0 commands on a 6.3 kernel | (even though only for compilation). 0) Do I need to reinvent wheel? Joke off. Really, why would you try alternate way of upgrading, when there's straight way to do it? - -- Best regards, Bogdan Culibrk bc@default.co.yu http://default.co.yu/~bc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfMnD0ACgkQo6C4vAhYtCDrTwCgoHSPgIoGgltE2plO4JsQ5Bb/ R50An3hFeeBfcNIyHlRD9za8lLnI3t0v =ZGrK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----