upgrade questions 4.10 -> 5-stable
Marcus Grando
marcus at corp.grupos.com.br
Mon Sep 20 20:13:56 PDT 2004
Hi,
Here's a preview...
FreeBSD 5.3-BETA Migration Guide:
http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html
Regards
Brad Davis wrote:
> On Monday 20 September 2004 15:12, Gregor Mosheh wrote:
>
>>I thought I'd ask here...
>>
>>I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.10, and would like to
>>upgrade to a 5.x because of the superior jail support.
>>
>>Which version would you recommend for someone who's
>>really interested in jail support, but doesn't like to
>>live dangerously? Of my hardware, the only item of
>>note is that I use FreeBSD 4.10's ehci driver for USB
>>2.0 devices.
>>
>>One of the notes in /usr/src/UPDATING was that GCC had
>>been upgraded from my current 2.95 to 3.4 and there
>>are known compatibility problems with the ABI (what's
>>an ABI? the .so's?) Will this upgrade force me to
>>recompile all of my existing C++ stuff, e.g. Postgres
>>and PostGIS, or will my existing binaries continue to
>>run?
>
>
> You should wait for 5.3-RELEASE. You will have to recompile every application
> you use. A doc on upgrading from 4.x to 5.x should be along when 5.3 is
> released.
>
>
> Regards,
> Brad
>
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Marcus Grando
Grupos Internet S/A
marcus(at)corp.grupos.com.br
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