Upgrading to 7 from 6.3

[B. Cook]

Yea I saw how openssl was updated and a ton of other things as well..

this is a new box w/o much on it.. so it's a good test.

(going to try portmaster on this box as well.. )

portmaster -fa (iirc)


On Feb 28, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Schiz0 wrote:

> 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