Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 16:55:15 -0300 From: Renato Botelho <rbgarga@gmail.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org> Subject: Re: 7.1 to 7.2 upgrade question Message-ID: <747dc8f30905051255j79b11662v716c2456c01d2b8a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87ljpbwi5v.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <000001c9cd85$afe53b70$0fafb250$@org> <87ljpbwi5v.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2009 09:30:41 -0400, "Paul Stewart" <paul@paulstewart.org> = wrote: >> Hi there. >> >> As I'm slowly getting used to FreeBSD (again), I recently upgraded >> three boxes to 7.2-RELEASE. =A0Two of them were running 7.1-RELEASE and >> one was running 7.2-RC2 .. >> >> Anyways, I used freebsd-update to upgrade - in my previous experiences >> I would have to do a "make world" etc. etc. >> >> Which method is most preferred - source or binary upgrading? =A0I don't >> mind source upgrading but is it really necessary anymore if using >> freebsd-update on a regular basis? > > If you don't need local patches or a custom kernel, and you can use the > GENERIC kernel configured to match your hardware setup, then it probably > makes a lot of sense to use freebsd-update. =A0It will usually be much > faster than compiling everything from source. I don't know if it's officially supported, but I did an hybrid upgrade using freebsd-update for the base and building the custom kernel from sources, it worked fine and is still much faster than build everything. --=20 Renato Botelho
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