On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:36:27AM -0500, Bruce Burden wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:25:18PM -0700, Jason Slack wrote: > > > > I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not one > > to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test > > releases of 7 available now to the final release when ready? Or do you have > > to wipe? > > > From ports, you install "cvsup" and you can keep your ports > and OS source up to date.
No need to do that anymore. A replacement for cvsup called csup is in the base system in 6.x. > The last time a full install was preferred was going from > the 5.x release to 6.x, I believe, due to differences in GCC 3.x > and GCC 4.x. So, it rarely happens. Version 6.x still uses gcc 3.4 as the system compiler. It is 7.x that uses gcc 4.2. I've performed a source upgrade from 6 to 7 without problems. I did however remove all ports and reinstalled them from scratch, to clean out all the ports cruft. There is also some interesting advice about cleaning up your system after a source upgrade in /usr/scr/Makefile. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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