status of 7.0
Marc UBM Bocklet
ubm at u-boot-man.de
Sun Jul 8 18:35:38 UTC 2007
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:51:06 +0200
Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Marc UBM Bocklet schreef:
> >
> >
> > I'd like to do some testing, but I'm a little bit afraid of the
> > upgrade procedure 6.2-stable to -current. Is it possible to do a
> > simple upgrade if I follow the guidelines in UPGRADE or are there
> > any hidden caveats? (like "you've to recompile all installed
> > ports", etc. :-))
> >
> [...don't try this on a production box...]
>
> Just following the procedure and the changelog entries in
> /usr/src/UPDATING should do the job. It's probably best to cvsup
> into a new directory and clean /usr/obj before beginning the update.
> That's how I updated from RELENG_6 to HEAD back in November 2006.
>
> Since we have a misc/compat6x port and a COMPAT_FREEBSD6 kernel
> configuaration option, it shouldn't be necessary to rebuild all your
> ports.
Thanks a lot to you and David for the quick response, I'll try updating
tomorrow :-)
Bye
Marc
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