UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld
Guido Demmenie
rottweilertje at rottnic.nl
Mon Apr 2 15:45:29 UTC 2007
On Apr 2, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> I do not have /usr/src/UPDATING
>
>
>
> I have
>
>
>
> # locate UPDATING
>
> /usr/local/share/doc/exim/README.UPDATING
>
> /usr/ports/UPDATING
>
> /usr/ports/mail/dspam/files/UPDATING
>
> /usr/ports/mail/dspam-devel/files/UPDATING
After you did a cvsup with "src-all" in the supfile there should be a
/usr/src/UPDATING file. Read it before updating, it can help you not
getting in trouble.
I just did an upgrade although that was from 6.0 to 6.2 so not
perfectly
comparable. But it workedout fi. e, I used the nex thowto:
http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:updateos
The howto is only fine, although I had some issues with understanding
mergemaster.
Mergemaster askes you whether to use the new file, the old file or to
merge
them. When merging them it gives a left and a right file and the
diffs of it.
You just have to select which one of them you want to keep.
Well, good luck and make sure you have a working level 0 dump at hand to
restore in case everything goes wrong.
--
Guido
www.rottnic.nl 0
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Derek Ragona [mailto:derek at computinginnovations.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:02 AM
> To: Jean-Paul Natola; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld
>
>
>
> The difference is a binary upgrade using sysinstall booting a later
> version
> CD or using cvsup and a source install. Both should work fine for
> your
> setup. If you want to go to 6.X you should go to 5.5 first.
>
> Read /usr/src/UPDATING in all cases.
>
> -Derek
>
>
> At 09:44 AM 4/2/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm think I really need to upgrade from 5.4 as I'm having a slew
> of issues
> with my programs- specifically exim-sa-clamav-
>
> My concern is that this was the only BSD install I had ever done with
> assistance from a colleague from across the border- So all I have
> been doing
> for the past year is cvsup-ing and portupgrading- however as mentioned
> earlier I'm running into issues that are consuming too much time
> for me to
> resolve as I am a one man IT department here.
>
> The first thing I'd like to know is if my box can indeed handle the
> upgrade
> to 6.2 -
>
> I have the following hardware-
>
> PIII 500mhz
> 256 ram
> 8 gig hard-drive
>
> The ONLY thing I use this box for is to filter mail that then gets
> passed to
> my exchange server-
>
> Are there any gotcha's I need to lookout for before attempting this
> upgrade,
> since this filters my e-mail if I screw up- I will have no incoming
> mail-
> lest I choose to redirect my SMTP directly to my mail server- NOT A
> GOOD
> IDEA.
>
> So I see there are two methods of upgrading - sysinstall or
> makeworld- what
> would be the optimal choice for someone with limited experience in
> the BSD
> world-
>
> Thanks
>
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