Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1

James Wu james at connection.ca
Mon Mar 30 09:51:26 PDT 2009


Ricardo Jesus wrote:
> James Wu wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm brand new to the list so forgive me if this has been answered. I 
>> tried searching the archives and tried googling and didn't come up 
>> with any results.
>>
>> I've been wanting to play with setfib multi-routing tables in 7.1, 
>> however, we have a bunch of 7.0 machines. I thought I'd take a test 
>> machine and upgrade it to 7.1. Everything went smoothly at first. I 
>> compiled a custom 7.1 kernel and installed it just fine. Afterwards, 
>> I  ran:
>>
>> freebsd-update fetch
>> freebsd-update install
>> to upgrade to the latest 7.0
>>
>> then:
>> freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE
>> freebsd-update install -r 7.1-RELEASE
>> freebsd-update fetch
>> to upgrade to 7.1
>>
>> now when I do a
>> uname -a,
>> I get FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 which looks right to me
>>
>> The problem I'm running into though is that the setfib binary doesn't 
>> seem to been added during the upgrade as I don't see it anywhere. I 
>> took a fresh install of 7.1 and do see it /usr/sbin/, but it's not 
>> there for the upgraded version of 7.1.
>> I guess at this point, I would like to do a reinstall of the sbin 
>> folder if it is possible or somehow get a clean copy of the 
>> /usr/sbin/ folder into my upgraded machine. Any hints on how to do that?
>>
>> James
>>
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> The problem is you are mixing custom kernels with freebsd-update. 
> freebsd-update only works for binary updates (kernel + userland).
>
> So either stick will freebsd-update or use csup and compile custom 
> kernel and world.
>
I should probably clarify what I meant by custom kernel. It's the 7.1 
kernel with a patch for a driver that the hardware needs. Otherwise, it 
is the vanilla 7.1 kernel.

I just tried to do a freebsd-update rollback and then did a 
freebsd-update fetch again.
This is what I get:

The following files will be updated as part of updating to 7.1-RELEASE-p4:
/usr/bin/dig
/usr/bin/host
/usr/bin/nslookup
/usr/bin/nsupdate
/usr/bin/openssl
/usr/lib/libssl.a
/usr/lib/libssl.so.5
/usr/lib/libssl_p.a
/usr/libexec/lukemftpd
/usr/libexec/telnetd
/usr/sbin/dnssec-keygen
/usr/sbin/dnssec-signzone
/usr/sbin/lwresd
/usr/sbin/named
/usr/sbin/named-checkconf
/usr/sbin/named-checkzone
/usr/sbin/named-compilezone
/usr/sbin/ntpd
/usr/sbin/rndc-confgen
/usr/src/contrib/lukemftpd/src/ftpd.c
/usr/src/contrib/telnet/telnetd/sys_term.c
/usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_environment.c
/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_time.c

It seems to be updating the various binaries in /usr/sbin just fine. 
However, there is no reference to setfib.


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