Hey Roman,
Roman Kennke wrote:
Hi list,
One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. I mean, I have a server running, to which I have no physical access. The only way to maintain it, is over SSH. The upgrade instructions in INSTALL.txt suggest putting in the CD, and using sysinstall for a binary upgrade. That is no option for me.
What I am looking for is an upgrade method which - can be used over an SSH connection - is not too difficult (like manually placing each piece in the right place) - does not leave old stuff on the HD (like the sysinstall method does, AFAIK)
... to make it short, something like the ports system (especially portupgrade) does with non-system apps would be cool.
I use CVSup to update my system and then rebuild as described in the /usr/src/Makefile file, (yeah yeah there is a UPDATING file on should follow), the only thing that i am not doing, since i dont have physical access as well, is boot into single user mode and run mergemaster, mostly i am keen of knowing what changes , so far on my 5.x servers there weren't any issue's requiring mergemaster to run.
Apart from that i updated my systems many times, without being in single user mode, with an ssh connection.
Hope this helps a bit..
ow yeah
/usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui is where the cvsup lives :)
Cheers
Is there a way to achieve that? This would be the one bit, which would make me switch to FreeBSD.
/Roman
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Kind regards,
Remko Lodder
Elvandar.org/DSINet.org
www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene
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