upgrade, portupgrade or not ?

[Brian Josefsen]

P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, jbousseau wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I actually got a FreeBSD 5.4 for Mail server ( postfix+imp+horde) , and
>> DNS server with bind.
>> I really hesitate to upgrade my ports and my BSD because the
>> configuration of IMP+horde+php is a real mess.
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> What are your advices about it ?
>>
>> Pls notice i'm not a Bsd specialist. Thanx
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Under these special circumstances:
>     Don't mess around with your running system.
>     Do a completely fresh install on an extra machine
>     and exchange the old one, when the new is up and
>     running.


Or upgrade base to 5.5 so you wont fall to much behind the supported
releases, it shouldn't affect your ports or installed application, and
then setup a jail and slowly migrate while you do continously testing,
it always works for me. In general it's always getting very suddenly
messy when your fall way behind releases.

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Best regards
Brian Josefsen