Re: 4.x - 5.x
On June 20, 2005 11:28 am, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Hello, it must be a well-discussed topic, but I don't know where to find a good description about upgrading from 4.x to 5.x. There is a production machine running 4.10 and the owner wants me to upgrade it to 5.4. Could somebody tell me the most important points to care? Or do You know a good howto? I don't know a good howto but I did a source upgrade from 4.11 to 5.3 a while back. I ran into a few issues (due to laziness on my part): Some changes in kernel config files for building custom kernel. Some changes in /etc (especially rc.conf). I wound up installing a fresh /etc and then manually adding my changes. Significant changes to the disk sub-system. I'm using vinum for disk mirroring. If you are using vinum, read up on gvinum carefully. I migrated too soon. Should have waited for 5.4. 5.4 is much better than 5.3. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.x - 5.x
Hello Kövesdán, Monday, June 20, 2005, 5:28:58 PM, you wrote these comments: Hello, it must be a well-discussed topic, but I don't know where to find a good description about upgrading from 4.x to 5.x. There is a production machine running 4.10 and the owner wants me to upgrade it to 5.4. Could somebody tell me the most important points to care? Or do You know a good howto? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/migration-guide.html Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán -- Best Regards, DanGer, ICQ: 261701668 | e-mail protecting at: http://www.2pu.net/ http://danger.rulez.sk | proxy list at:http://www.proxy-web.com/ | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! [ Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream? - E. A. Poe ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.x - 5.x
On Jun 20, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Kövesdán_Gábor wrote: Hello, it must be a well-discussed topic, but I don't know where to find a good description about upgrading from 4.x to 5.x. There is a production machine running 4.10 and the owner wants me to upgrade it to 5.4. Could somebody tell me the most important points to care? Or do You know a good howto? Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:42b6e0cc524098808316405! I've upgraded quite a few machines from 4.x to 5.x, all without any problems. The best 'how-to' I know of is in /usr/src/UPDATING Update your sources via cvsup to RELENG_5_4 and search in /usr/src/ UPDATING for To upgrade in-place from 4.x-stable to current. On one of my 5.4-p1 systems, the relevant instructions start on line 1868. Take care, Ken Ebling ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.x - 5.x
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:08:24AM -0800, Mike Hoskins wrote: [...] my question is, what's the best way to move 4.x packages to 5.x? i'm not talking binaries of course, but reproducing the set of installed packages from data in /var/db/pkg. i've read through the man pages for pkg*, portupgrade, etc... and i'm thinking it may be simple enough to just tar /var/db/pkg under 4.x, restore under 5.x, and then portupgrade the tree. i've tried it with a couple ports and it works, but i haven't tried it with an entire tree yet (more complex, with more dependencies to keep straight). am i headed in the right direction, or is this a bad idea. :) this is just to get the same set of binaries back on the 5.x system, merging configs, etc. is given it's own blurbage. Actually, this sounds like a very clever way of reproducing your ports setup. A portupgrade -fRr \* should do the trick. Wish I'd thought of it first.. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. -- Thomas B. Reed ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
