Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 23:43:21 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Andy Hiscock <andyjhiscock@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPGRADE TO RELEASE 8.0-P3/SAMBA HELP REQUIRED Message-ID: <20100603234321.06784375.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <68898.63609.qm@web26105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <929158.22715.qm@web26105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <AANLkTilpym6L-9rO91VWWDJ2EjmrWRY90fJhPybL9ovH@mail.gmail.com> <125527.66409.qm@web26103.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <68898.63609.qm@web26105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:29:28 +0000 (GMT), Andy Hiscock <andyjhiscock@yahoo.com> wrote: > Why during the upgrade process the "inspecting system" shouldnt > be able to find and identify and prepair everything that needs > to be upgraded and reconfigured accordingly. Because this is the responsibility of the administrator - to decide WHAT to upgrade, WHY and WHEN, and even HOW. The base system tools (such as sysinstall, freebsd-upgrade) do not have any clue about what's going on in /usr/local. This subtree is reserved for installed applications (that do NOT belong to the base system). There are two files you should ALWAYS have a look at when performing an update: /usr/src/UPDATING /usr/ports/UPDATING They continue very important information for the person who does the administration for a particular system, e. g. it tells you that libxyz has gotten a major update and all applications linked to this library need to be recompiled. > Surely thats what "Inspecting system" is meant to be doing. I could come up with hundreds of other ideas what "Inspecting system" could mean. :-) > No matter if it is FreeBSD 1.0 or the prior version to the upgrade -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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