Upgrading to 7 from 6.3
Schiz0
schiz0phrenic21 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 17:58:20 UTC 2008
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> writes:
>
> > B. Cook wrote:
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> I was going to try and update a box from 6.3 to 7 via buildworld all
> >> 32 bit, nothing 64.
> >>
> >> Assuming it should be done like this:
> >>
> >> make buildworld
> >> make buildkernel
> >> mergemaster -p
> >> make installkernel
> >> (reboot)
> >> (startup on 7 kernel)
> >> make installworld
> >> mergemaster (do full mergemaster)
> >> make installworld
> >> (reboot)
> >>
> >> (make sure all is working in 7 then do it all again; just to be sure)
> >> make buildworld
> >> make buildkernel
> >> make installkernel
> >> make installworld
> >>
> >>
> >> Sound about right? or too redundant?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >
> > The doing it all again part might bring some very slight performance
> > improvements due to the compiler change.
>
> It *shouldn't* make any difference; buildworld bootstraps its own
> compiler as one of the first things it does.
>
> None of the steps really need to be done more than once. The
> redundancy as described isn't harmful, either.
> _______________________________________________
You also have to recompile all your ports due to a major change in how
the ports work.
portupgrade -f -a
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