Upgrading from 4.x to 5.x ... possible?

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

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> Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is possible, 
> or have the changes become so great as to make this undesirable?

The only thought/concern I have ... didn't the file system format change 
in 5.x?  I realize 5.x would be backwards compatible with 4.x, but 
wouldn't going from 4.x -> 5.x via cvsup lose out on any new features as a 
result of the file system changes?


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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Bashar wrote:

> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html
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> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is possible, 
>> or have the changes become so great as to make this undesirable?
>> 
>> Thanks ...
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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Jul 07), Marc G. Fournier said:
>> Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is
>> possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this
>> undesirable?
>
> That's what the Upgrade menu item in sysinstall is for :)  It'll save a
> copy of /etc to a safe place then copy the passwd file back after the
> install.  You'll want to rebuild all your ports, but most should still
> work until you do.  A fresh install is always cleaner, but I've
> upgraded some of my servers from 2.2.8 -> 4.* -> 5.* with no problems.
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> 	Dan Nelson
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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Matt Emmerton wrote:

>> Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is
>> possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this undesirable?
>
> I just upgraded a machine from 4.10 to 5.4-stable via cvsup / buildworld and
> didn't run into any problems whatsoever.
> /usr/src/UPDATING has a good guide for doing this migration.
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> Matt Emmerton
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Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664