Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:37:18 +0000 From: John <comp.john@googlemail.com> To: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R Message-ID: <20091124163718.GB91657@potato> In-Reply-To: <200911241725.42229.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <20091124154514.GA91657@potato> <200911241725.42229.pieter@degoeje.nl>
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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
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