On 4/7/2011 3:06 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Steven R. Gerber > <sger...@gerber-systems.com> wrote: >> On 4/7/2011 1:01 AM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Steven R. Gerber >>> <sger...@gerber-systems.com> wrote: >>>> .... >>>> B B B B Going through /etc manually or by sysmerge is tedious. >>>> >>> >>> I wish we had some kind of super-black-magic-mind-reading-hyper-sysmerge > tool... >>> >>> >> >> Dear Abel, >> That was unnecessary. > > It was as sysmerge(8) is doing great job. > >> My point was that migrating from 4.8/i386 to 4.8/amd64 requires >> virtually no changes to main /etc. > > Virtually maybe. Practically for sure. > >> But, a fresh install (not an upgrade) makes me (re)verify all of /etc. >> The upgrade FAQ 4.7 -> 4.8 was fairly clear about what parts of /etc >> were touched and needed special attention. > > You can use site scripts to make your own changes directly during install. > >> >> Thanks, >> Steven > > >
Thanks to everyone for the thorough comments. I know that sysmerge is a great tool. My "tedious" thought was just that (all the tools are available for this part). After all the comments and some reflection, I have some questions (I might be reaching). Since going from i386 to amd64 will probably be common, should a guide be in FAQ? I am very willing to do what I can. I just don't want to be barking up the wrong tree. The partitions/mounts problem is far more disconcerting. What if I need to save data to a striped array to do the migration? Recreating/resetting those parameters is dangerous. How can I create and use a site script to preserve them through install? Is it possible to do an install without walloping the existing filesystem(s)? (Deleting files is OK.) Thanks, Steven
