Am 21.08.2006 um 18:19 schrieb Ian Smith:
Hello -stable ones,
I recently (without drama) upgraded a 5.4-RELEASE system to
FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #1: Tue Aug 1 11:11:20 EST 2006
for 'target practice' at least, on the way to 6.1-STABLE
I was preparing to portupgrade everything next, when I wondered:
a) should I upgrade from RELENG_5 straight to RELENG_6 or should I be
stopping off at 6.1-RELEASE along the way first? and
I'd go straight to 6-stable. Make sure you have a good backup, even
if you stop over at 6.1.
b) do I need to upgrade all existing ports (way out of date) before
the
source upgrade, or can I be confident of doing that from 6.1 (-R or
-S)?
FWIW: a wee Celeron 300, so minimising upgrade build times is
desirable.
Unless you have business critical apps running (downtime must be
minimal), you can wait until you've completed the upgrade to 6-
stable, and then run portupgrade -af. If you'd like to run the
portupgrade overnight, you might want to define BATCH, and possibly
set any port building options in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf,
otherwise, the port builds will be frequently interrupted by make
config questions.
Stefan
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Stefan Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fon +49 170 346 0140
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