Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version + ports

2008-07-28 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Svein wrote: Is there a problem using the prebuilt packages from STABLE on a RELEASE box? If I want to run RELEASE, and still use the latest packages? The ABI is consistent between STABLE and RELEASE, right? Yes, there is a problem. See my posting here:

Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version + ports

2008-07-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:52 AM, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Svein wrote: Is there a problem using the prebuilt packages from STABLE on a RELEASE box? If I want to run RELEASE, and still use the latest packages? The ABI is consistent between STABLE and RELEASE, right? Yes, there is a problem.

Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version + ports

2008-07-27 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: I want to upgrade two freebsd machines I have from 6.1-SECURITY and 5.3-RELEASE respectively, to the latest 7.0 release of FreeBSD. I don't want to cvsup and build, but prefer to use prebuilt binaries. Also I'd like to avoid wiping the systems, and starting

Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version + ports

2008-07-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: The 6.1 system seem to be running 7.0-p2 now, though. Thanks! It is still upgrading ports. Fortunately this box does nothing important, and is just my personal playground. If something gets messed up, noe problem. I'm trying to upgrade the ports binary as well,