On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:59:27PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Timothy Aslat wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Quick question. Where would I find information on downgrading a > > -CURRENT to a -STABLE or -RELEASE? > > > > I'm just trying to avoid doing a reinstall and re-setup from scratch. > > THis belongs on -questions. > > In general, you can boot from a CDROM of the version you > want to downgrade to, choose "upgrade" from the sysinstall > menu, and then proceed to "upgrade". > > It will not install your sources for you (you will have to > do that manually). > > You may also have a number of issues with configuration file > data, though it should leave libraries and other things intact. > > The only other things that should be able to go wrong are any > libraries in developement that have not had their version numbers > bumped for interface changes, and the boot blocks, which you > can deal with by manually reinstalling via the "holographic > shell" via a manual run of "disklabel -B" using the installed > files by specifying the path to them, prior to the reboot. > > FWIW, I have, in practice, "upgraded" a large number of -current > machines from an October 2000 snapshot to a 4.3-RELEASE CDROM > version, with no problem, if locally booted, and with some > effort when doing the upgrade from an NFS mounted CDROM over > the network (mostly, SSH problems with the pam.conf files > when the SSH changed to need explicit pam.conf entries, and not > using the generic entries if the SSH ones were missing, as the > PAM design documents with which SSH does not comply indicate > you should do...). You also have to run the sysinstall from > the CDROM, which is not on the CDROM itself, and is hidden in > the boot images -- and must be named "sysinstall", because it's > a crunched binary. The only other issue is that you must > manually copy ove /dev/MAKEDEV and /dev/MAKEDEV.local, and run > "sh MAKEDEV all" to get the /dev/random set up correctly, but > all this can be done prior to the reboot. > FWIW, modern -CURRENT's should be able to downgrade to -STABLE without problems. If it's broken, please let me know, and I'll fix it. I mean "if it WILL be broken", as tonight's -CURRENT has successfully built -STABLE. Didn't test the `installworld' part, but I don't believe there are any problems with it.
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