Issue #3197 has been updated by justin.
tse wrote: > Feel free to change the wording or anything else; or ask for any changes. This works well - I imagine 95% of the use cases are going to be "upgrade within current version" or "move to next release" so I want that to be as little guesswork as possible. I'm going to be on the road for a little while yet - part of the reason for my slow responses. I won't be able to try this out... maybe I can gin up some testers. ---------------------------------------- Bug #3197: DragonFly upgrades http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/3197#change-13772 * Author: tse * Status: New * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: Feature request * Target version: ---------------------------------------- Hiya, I realize this is quite a simple script, and possibly misses useful features (?). Originally posted to @users, but mailing list line-wraping didn't keep the script fully intact, so copy/paste/test wouldn't of worked Also, the response on DragonFly Digest encouraged me re-post it here I've tested it on new installs of 4.8, 5.2, and 5.4, and with installs previously upgraded with `make src-create/src-create-shallow` It takes this: ------ > cd /usr > make src-create > ... > make buildworld > make buildkernel > ... > make upgrade ------ To this: ------ > /usr/upgrade Upgrading DragonFly BSD For more information see: `man build` `man config` /usr/src/README /usr/src/UPDATING http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/ It is possible to run this script without root privileges Usage: upgrade [configuration] Configuration is "X86_64_GENERIC" Latest releases: [1] DragonFly_RELEASE_5_6 [2] DragonFly_RELEASE_5_4 [3] DragonFly_RELEASE_5_2 [4] DragonFly_RELEASE_5_0 [5] DragonFly_RELEASE_4_8 Select [1-5]: ------ ---Files-------------------------------- upgrade (2.4 KB) upgrade2 (2.96 KB) upgrade3 (3.12 KB) -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/my/account