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Date:      Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:07:21 +0100
From:      =?UTF-8?B?Qm9nZGFuIMSGdWxpYnJr?= <bc@default.co.yu>
To:        Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: It is safe to build ports for 7.0 from a 6.3 chroot?
Message-ID:  <47CD3B79.7070607@default.co.yu>
In-Reply-To: <200803040214.50082.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
References:  <20080303200933.GA909@gauss.sanabria.es> <47CC9C65.9090409@default.co.yu> <200803040214.50082.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>

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Mel wrote:
|
| Minimize downtime of services provided by ports?
|
| Jose: take a look at Tinderbox - it does exactly what you want to do:
build
| ports for OS release X on OS release Y, using chroot. If you're unsure
about
| your own method, because of OSVERSION or similar, do it using Tinderbox.
|

IMHO, the usual procedure described in handbook will satisfy 95% of
upgrade scenarios. Others can install compat6x port right after (or
before) reboot.

In any case, be free to try whatever scenario works for you, but I would
~ not like to be the one who inherits server with such 'messy-upgrade' :|


- --
Best regards,
Bogdan Culibrk
bc@default.co.yu http://default.co.yu/~bc
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