On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:25:42PM +0100, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Tuesday 24 November 2009 16:45:14 John wrote: > > Hello list > > > > I've looked high and low for a howto/link showing how to update to 8, to > > no avail. Is it just a case of the regular buildworld process or are > > there gotchas because we are crossing major version numbers. > > > > You got it right. Just the regular upgrade procedure as documented in > /usr/src/UPDATING. > > The gotcha is that you need to rebuild all ports. If you don't do that you > can > run in to trouble when you later build a port. > > I found that usually it is fastest to just take note of which ports you need, > delete all existing ports, then after the upgrade reinstall the required > ports.
Thanks, that's a relief! I looked at the url the other chap posted and it seems to be the same thing although he uses a slightly different syntax and I think he is talking about upgrading in a datacentre, remotely. cheers -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"