Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:12:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Damien Tougas <dtougas@converging.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My first successful upgrade... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907131606240.18339-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <D1378A34D8E2D211831900105A99D3FE06D1BF@BDC>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Damien Tougas wrote:
> Yeah!
Congrats. :)
> 1- If I had originally installed ports under the 3.1 system, do I need to
> recompile them
> under 3.2? They seem to work fine so far.
If they work fine, then you don't need to recompile them. If you
have some mission critical stuff that you want to run at peak efficiency
(or anything compiled -static) then it wouldn't hurt to recompile them so
that they get linked against the new libraries.
> 2- How often is reasonable to upgrade to the latest version of stable?
I think that your reasoning on this is solid. You generally want
to upgrade if there is a new feature you need, bug you need fixed, or an
urgent security problem. In general once per release cycle is good enough
to keep you up to date, especially on a production machine. Never upgrade
right before, or right after a release since things tend to get stuffed in
at the last minute, then fixed up. A few weeks after a release is usually
good, watch the -stable list.
> 3- When is it better to do a clean install rather than CVSup and make world?
When you are upgrading from one branch to another (say, 2.2.8 to
3.x), although I did make worlds on those too. If there is any fear that a
remote upgrade won't work, if you need to wipe the disk and start over....
etc. In general there is no difference in the outcome between one method
or the other, except perhaps whatever residual benefit you get from
compiling the sources on the same machine that they will be running on
during a make world.
Hope this helps,
Doug
--
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nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter
what it does.
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