On 11/5/07, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg Thomas wrote: > > > > Hmmm, on my second upgrade today I did a 4.0 to 4.2 upgrade, i.e. > > threw the 4.2 CD in a 4.0 machine, upgraded, and then followed the > > directions for 4.0 to 4.1 and 4.1 to 4.2. Am I putting myself at > > risk? > > eh. > The upgrade script occasionally has "fixes" stuck in it that help the > migration from vX.Y to vX.Y+1. SO, if there was any magic in the 4.1 > upgrade script, you missed it. > > The other issue is I write the upgradeXX.html docs and the > upgradeXX.patch files based on a "one-step-at-a-time" process. On one > upgrade, I may say "copy over this file", and the next one, it might > be "patch this file", and if you try to patch it with the later version > before copying the previous version over, it may fail. However, if you > take the time to /understand/ what I am doing in that upgrade process, > it is easy to customize it to your needs. I don't hide much. :)
Thanks, this was a screw around box so no biggie. Next is my wireless AP/firewall which I will do correctly. > ... > > > > I love "pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends". > > > > Up until this upgrade I'd manually removed and added packages. > > cool, isn't it? :) Awesome! Greg -- Ticketmaster and Ticketweb suck, but everyone knows that: http://ticketmastersucks.org http://lodesertprotosites.org Dethink to survive - Mclusky
