Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

2004-10-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:16:00PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote: Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 9:01 PM: Gerely speeking, STABLE doesn't mean things never gets broken. Most reliable are the RELEASE plus fixes. So don't follow 5-STABLE but 5-RELENG To help ease frustration

Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

2004-10-20 Thread Kevin Kobb
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Glenn Sieb wrote: Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 9:01 PM: Gerely speeking, STABLE doesn't mean things never gets broken. Most reliable are the RELEASE plus fixes. So don't follow 5-STABLE but 5-RELENG To help ease frustration and such.. you

Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

2004-10-19 Thread Glenn Sieb
I'd like to update a server from 5.1-RELEASE-p10 to 5.3-STABLE... What I'm wondering is: Are there any caveats to this upgrade? One of my compadres asked me: How stable is stable? Isn't this the release where they change some value from an int16 to an int32 and upgrading needs to be done with

Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

2004-10-19 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:32:59PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote: I'd like to update a server from 5.1-RELEASE-p10 to 5.3-STABLE... What I'm wondering is: Are there any caveats to this upgrade? The anwser to this question is to long for me to write and its written down in the handbook. Please

Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

2004-10-19 Thread Glenn Sieb
Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 5:38 PM: The anwser to this question is to long for me to write and its written down in the handbook. Please follow the instuctions in this chapter. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html Danke, Alex--since

Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

2004-10-19 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:46:49PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote: Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 5:38 PM: The anwser to this question is to long for me to write and its written down in the handbook. Please follow the instuctions in this chapter.

Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

2004-10-19 Thread Glenn Sieb
Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 9:01 PM: Gerely speeking, STABLE doesn't mean things never gets broken. Most reliable are the RELEASE plus fixes. So don't follow 5-STABLE but 5-RELENG To help ease frustration and such.. you mean: Follow RELENG_5_2 not RELENG_5 (from:

Re: Upgrading a 5.1-RELEASE-p10 system...

2004-10-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Glenn Sieb wrote: Alex de Kruijff said the following on 10/19/2004 9:01 PM: Gerely speeking, STABLE doesn't mean things never gets broken. Most reliable are the RELEASE plus fixes. So don't follow 5-STABLE but 5-RELENG To help ease frustration and such.. you mean: Follow RELENG_5_2 not RELENG_5