Azure FreeBSD help

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On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 04:35:23PM -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
>Hi wen,
>
>I'm subbed to this list now and paying attention.  I didn't go read the
>archives.  Let me know how I can help with FreeBSD and Azure.

Hi,

Would you know the safest way to upgrade a freebsd-12.0-p13 instance on azure?

What I'm worried about concerns waagent (later:- azure-agent). I want to
upgrade to latest 12.1-p7. But the 12.0 instance had waagent already provided,
and not by the ports system. On the 12.0-system there are these files:

/etc/rc.d/waagent
/etc/waagent.conf
/usr/local/sbin/waagent
/usr/local/sbin/waagent2.0
/usr/sbin/waagent
/usr/sbin/waagent2.0
/var/lib/waagent
/var/log/waagent.log
/var/run/3_waagent.pid
/var/run/waagent.pid

So, before upgrading the OS via freebsd-update, is it safe to:
1. stop waagent
2. after backing up waagent.conf, deleting the above files/dirs
3. installing azure-agent
4. starting azure-agent using the previously backed-up conf file, this time it
being off /usr/local/etc as per ports pkgbase
5. then doing the os update via freebsd-update

basically trying to make sure i'm doing it all the right way in the right
order.

thanks,
-- 
J.
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