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Renato Botelho wrote: | Hi all, | | I have a box running FreeBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE-p9, and I have a jail | running on this machine, all works fine. | | When FreeBSD-5.3 releases, I want to upgrade my box to this version, | how must I proceed to upgrade my box and my jail to new version?
You will have to sync your source using cvsup(1) to the apropriate branch which I guess will be RELENG_5_3.
General instructions on how to sync your source to the new release and how to recompile and reinstall your system are located in the FreeBSD Handbook at: <http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html> and <http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html>.
Some tips for updating your jails can be found at <http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/BuildAndUpdateJails>.
You should definitely back up your entire system before updating. It's also probably advisable to disable all additionally installed software before booting the new version. There seem to have been a lot of changes which may break your current binaries. So after you upgrade the system, a portupgrade -fa may be in place.
And be sure to have a look at /usr/src/UPDATING after syncing your source.
I would break this all up into the following
1. backup 2. rebuild steps, including cvsup, buildworld etc 3. disable all ports and jails 4. install steps, including install{kernel,world} and mergemaster, reboot etc [see if it works] 5. jail updating steps ...
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