Re: 6.2: "upgrade", or just "install" and restore rc.conf?
- From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:21:13 +0100
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:44:43PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
Presuming you have a 1 or 2 user system, and haven't done alot of
mods, is there any reason to "upgrade" to 6.2 as opposed to just
"install" it? Of the maybe 10 files I've modified, I have backed them
up elsewhere, and it's fresh in my mind still. The only issues I can
think of are (1) users/groups (of which I again have a whopping 2),
and
I would rather use csup to update the sources and do a build/install
cycle. That way you get to run mergemaster, which shows you all the
changes in the configuration files, and gives you the choice to apply
them or not.
(2) installed packages - this could be a problem, as I have no idea
how we (the os) "know" what's installed, and that info may or may not
be deleted on a new install.
If you haven't kept your ports/packages up-to-date, it might be
beneficial to make a list of all installed ports, delete all ports and
build/pkg_add them all again, so that you get the latest versions.
(3) sysinstall/label doesn't seem happy about putting things on an
existing slice(s) - when I fubared my 6.1 install it complained about
insufficient space until I deleted all slices on the disk.
Using csup and build/install kernel/world doesn't have this problem either.
Roland
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