From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 24 16:37:30 2009 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 E864B1065679 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:37:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from comp.john@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72FF98FC1F for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:37:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz5 with SMTP id 5so6574668bwz.3 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:37:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=qh3oMkCGyevFWcIPY7BxUHrxxH3mgz47ncyIVJ0queI=; b=JjQxSFhCUojOyN+DaeHoyZAv0eCqB5mkwTJqCf8N3wlFr/wi3PHNN6yQjV0t6pOghf c8qxioQLuhTmKc0OXE2A7l9+k72NozBVtxc/FOljkyHTf0aRhE7wB6mGFeN8hkarO1qZ EeC+JjLmcr62NGApFzQzJILaMyHN0MJgt0IBE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=Q/9OsnFz7OVBKK1NzaKdxCayfnkBex41ZojkKGBjBe93I2xvveR9pMM7JanbWIFQ/C j7TeiuHzCNGJDNRb07bjfgSH6fYHxi2bkqaW99kfqzqvofTALgSWFJsr4Oxv4eEqa10o 7QCINXmMWebcY1/RbbrduxrStrW+7oEtq7+ig= Received: by 10.204.152.4 with SMTP id e4mr5617238bkw.169.1259080649260; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:37:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from potato (potato.growveg.org [62.49.247.163]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm409738fxm.0.2009.11.24.08.37.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:37:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:37:18 +0000 From: John To: Pieter de Goeje Message-ID: <20091124163718.GB91657@potato> References: <20091124154514.GA91657@potato> <200911241725.42229.pieter@degoeje.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200911241725.42229.pieter@degoeje.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R 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, 24 Nov 2009 16:37:31 -0000 On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:25:42PM +0100, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Tuesday 24 November 2009 16:45:14 John wrote: > > Hello list > > > > I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to > > no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are > > there gotchas because we are crossing major version numbers. > > > > You got it right. Just the regular upgrade procedure as documented in > /usr/src/UPDATING. > > The gotcha is that you need to rebuild all ports. If you don't do that you can > run in to trouble when you later build a port. > > I found that usually it is fastest to just take note of which ports you need, > delete all existing ports, then after the upgrade reinstall the required > ports. Thanks, that's a relief! I looked at the url the other chap posted and it seems to be the same thing although he uses a slightly different syntax and I think he is talking about upgrading in a datacentre, remotely. cheers -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5