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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