Re: upgrading perl

2004-12-31 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:46:09PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > I haven't found big differences between 5.6 and 5.8, so I'd suggest you > use 5.8. The main reason to stick with an older version is that you > might develop scripts for platforms where the newer are not available. I've noticed som

Re: upgrading perl

2004-12-31 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, December 30, 2004 7:54 PM -0800 Karl Agee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Freebsd 4.11-pre. I am working on learning perl, and have perl 5.00x that is in the base system when I installed 4.10-Release. Since most of the learning materials out there are based on later verisions esp sinc

Re: upgrading perl

2004-12-31 Thread Erik Norgaard
Karl Agee wrote: Freebsd 4.11-pre. I am working on learning perl, and have perl 5.00x that is in the base system when I installed 4.10-Release. Since most of the learning materials out there are based on later verisions esp since 5.6.x some of the features arent in this older version. I am co

Re: upgrading perl

2004-12-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
Karl Agee wrote: Freebsd 4.11-pre. I am working on learning perl, and have perl 5.00x that is in the base system when I installed 4.10-Release. Since most of the learning materials out there are based on later verisions esp since 5.6.x some of the features arent in this older version. I am co

Re: upgrading perl

2004-12-30 Thread Skylar Thompson
Karl Agee wrote: Freebsd 4.11-pre. I am working on learning perl, and have perl 5.00x that is in the base system when I installed 4.10-Release. Since most of the learning materials out there are based on later verisions esp since 5.6.x some of the features arent in this older version. I am co

Re: upgrading from 4.2 to 4.10, succeeded, but still boots 4.2! Help!!!

2004-12-21 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:26:17AM -0500, Zachary Huang wrote: > OK, my old questions might be too simple and I did not get much help from > here. > My old system was 4.2 and I was trying to upgrade to 4.10. (hardware: > K2-6 350 MHz with 384 meg and 20 gig) > > here is what I managed to do: >

Re: upgrading from 4.2 to 4.10, succeeded, but still boots 4.2! Help!!!

2004-12-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-22 01:26, Zachary Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My old system was 4.2 and I was trying to upgrade to 4.10. > > here is what I managed to do: > > 1). cvsup to RELENG_4_10 > here is the supfile > > *default host=ftp5.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/home/ncvs > *def

Re: upgrading from 4.2 to 4.10, succeeded, but still boots 4.2! Help!!!

2004-12-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 10:26 pm, Zachary Huang wrote: > OK, my old questions might be too simple and I did not get much help > from here. My old system was 4.2 and I was trying to upgrade to 4.10. > (hardware: K2-6 350 MHz with 384 meg and 20 gig) > > here is what I managed to do: > > 1). cvs

Re: upgrading 4.10 to 5.3

2004-12-21 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Damien Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-12-21 07:27 +0100]: > If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong let me know. Also, if you > think I should just dump 4.10 and do a new install of 5.3 I can do that > as well. I've got another drive I can install 5.3 on. > > I'm hoping I can upgrade so I don'

Re: upgrading FreeBSD

2004-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We currently have FreeBSD but we're running out of hard disk space. How can we get a larger hard disk? Most people buy a larger hard drive from a computer store, but YMMV. :-) Look at a yellow pages for a local CompUSA or see www.pricewatch.com for one site which provi

Re: Upgrading/Updating precompiled packages

2004-12-08 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:49:31 +1100, Alex G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a small system running FreeBSD. I'd like to know if there's an easy > way to >upgrade/update precompiled ports packages without using ports tree > and >portupgrade. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/b

Re: upgrading apache 1.3.21 to apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22

2004-11-20 Thread Steel City Phantom
(sigh) oh well. thanks Lowell Gilbert wrote: Steel City Phantom [1]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: noone know how to do this? portupgrade will help you manage it, but you're still going to need to re-install Apache in order to upgrade Apache. Steel City Phantom wrote: i have a produ

Re: upgrading apache 1.3.21 to apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22

2004-11-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steel City Phantom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > noone know how to do this? portupgrade will help you manage it, but you're still going to need to re-install Apache in order to upgrade Apache. > Steel City Phantom wrote: > > > i have a production server hosting several sites and need to do th

Re: upgrading apache 1.3.21 to apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22

2004-11-20 Thread Steel City Phantom
noone know how to do this? Steel City Phantom wrote: i have a production server hosting several sites and need to do this upgrade. is there a way i can do it without uninstalling everything and reinstalling it all ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list htt

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Adam Smith
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:15:15PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan said: > > > > o update from cvs > > # cd /usr/src > > # make update > > o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode > > # cd /usr/obj > > # rm -rf * > > # cd /usr/src > > # make buildworld > >

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Adam Smith
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:12:36PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan said: > > > >So basically: > > > > o update from cvs > > # cd /usr/src > > # make update > > o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode > > # cd /usr/obj > > # rm -rf * > > # cd /usr/src > > # make

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Adam Smith
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:15:02PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan said: > Maybe you can disregard that. Looking at "The Complete FreeBSD" I see > that you can just use GENERIC, if you want. So, I typed: Oh! I had just answered, too :-) > make buildworld KERNCONF=GENERIC > > and off it went. > > Any re

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Ed Budd
Peter Risdon wrote: Ed Budd wrote: Oops that should have read: make installworld KERNCONF=MYKERNEL This is the second time I've seen this in this thread. Is the KERNCONF argument meaningful with a make installworld? Peter. lol, no. I shouldn't bother responding to posts when I'm busy doing a h

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Peter Risdon
Ed Budd wrote: Oops that should have read: make installworld KERNCONF=MYKERNEL This is the second time I've seen this in this thread. Is the KERNCONF argument meaningful with a make installworld? Peter. -- the circle squared network systems and software http://www.circlesquared.com _

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Ed Budd
Ed Budd wrote: Curtis Vaughan wrote: o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL o install kernel

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Ed Budd
Curtis Vaughan wrote: o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL o install kernel/world in singl

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL o install kernel/world in single user mode # re

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Peter Risdon
Curtis Vaughan wrote: On 18 Nov, 2004, at 12:12, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So basically: o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make bu

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Maybe you can disregard that. Looking at "The Complete FreeBSD" I see that you can just use GENERIC, if you want. So, I typed: make buildworld KERNCONF=GENERIC and off it went. Any reason why I wouldn't want to use GENERIC? I haven't compiled anything special for my kernel. On 18 Nov, 2004, at

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
So basically: o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL Adam! Sorry to bother you again, but I go

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-17 Thread unixadmin99
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:42:18 -0800, Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone help me with this? Where do I go to get the source code to > put in /usr/src ? Run /stand/sysinstall as root; choose Configure, then Distributions, then src, then ALL. Its all in the Handbook ;) -- ~micha

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-09 Thread messmate
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:08:14 +1030 Adam Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 04:49:42PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan said: >> Just want to be sure that I do the right thing. >> >> So, my version at present is 5.3-BETA1 and I want to install 5.3. >> I supposed I could just install 5.3

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-08 Thread Adam Smith
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 04:49:42PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan said: > Just want to be sure that I do the right thing. > > So, my version at present is 5.3-BETA1 and I want to install 5.3. > I supposed I could just install 5.3 over my current version, but > wouldn't an upgrade work just as well? > > F

Re: Upgrading 5.2.1 to 5.3R2

2004-11-03 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:01:35 -0500, Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so I upgraded, ran mergemaster, and merged /etc/group (and > /etc/master.passwd I think) via mergemaster. > I merged those files to retain my non root user account. > I rebooted, and I haven't been able to log into m

Re: Upgrading 5.2.1 to 5.3R2 (Maybe a problem adding a user) [SOLVED]

2004-11-02 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Ok, so I upgraded, ran mergemaster, and merged /etc/group (and /etc/master.passwd I think) via mergemaster. I merged those files to retain my non root user account. I rebooted, and I haven't been able to log into my non root account. I tried to readd the a

Re: Upgrading 5.2.1 to 5.3R2 (Maybe a problem adding a user)

2004-11-02 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Ok, so I upgraded, ran mergemaster, and merged /etc/group (and /etc/master.passwd I think) via mergemaster. I merged those files to retain my non root user account. I rebooted, and I haven't been able to log into my non root account. I tried to readd the account via adduser, b

Re: Upgrading KDE

2004-10-25 Thread Huw Wynn-Jones
On Sunday 24 October 2004 13:42, Spiral Eyed Girl wrote: > Hello, I am trying to upgrade KDE, using make install in the ports > directory, and I get this error: > > ===> kdelibs-3.3.0_2 conflicts with installed package(s): > kdebase-3.1.4 > > They install files into the same place. >

Re: Upgrading KDE

2004-10-24 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 24 October 2004 07:23 am, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Sunday 24 October 2004 06:42 am, Spiral Eyed Girl wrote: > > Hello, I am trying to upgrade KDE, using make install in the > > ports directory, and I get this error: > > > > ===> kdelibs-3.3.0_2 conflicts with installed package(s): >

Re: Upgrading KDE

2004-10-24 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Sunday 24 October 2004 06:42 am, Spiral Eyed Girl wrote: > Hello, I am trying to upgrade KDE, using make install in the > ports directory, and I get this error: > > ===> kdelibs-3.3.0_2 conflicts with installed package(s): > kdebase-3.1.4 > > They install files into the same place.

Re: Upgrading KDE

2004-10-24 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:42:38 -0700, Spiral Eyed Girl wrote > Hello, I am trying to upgrade KDE, using make install in the ports > directory, and I get this error: > > ===> kdelibs-3.3.0_2 conflicts with installed package(s): > kdebase-3.1.4 > > They install files into the same place

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

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

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

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: http://www

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. > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/

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 I'm

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 fol

Re: Upgrading Bind

2004-10-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 08:53:54 PM -0400 questions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Current O/S version = FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE Current Bind version = named 8.3.7-REL Does anyone know if upgrading Bind/named 8.3.7 to 9.3 is recommended within 4.10-RELEASE? Recommended? It's

Re: Upgrading Bind

2004-10-14 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:53:54PM -0400, questions wrote: > > Hello list, > > Current O/S version = FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE > Current Bind version = named 8.3.7-REL > > Does anyone know if upgrading Bind/named 8.3.7 to 9.3 is > recommended within 4.10-RELEASE? If so can this be a

Re: upgrading to 5.3-Beta7 problem

2004-10-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Benzi Mizrahi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I am in a middle of upgrading to Beta7 (from 5.3-beta5) > I builtworld builtkernel did installkernel > rebooted as single user did mergemaster. > Now I am having a working 5.3-beta7. > I did make installworld and it stopped in a middle,

Re: upgrading openssl/openssh only using ports

2004-10-01 Thread Angelo Turetta
- Original Message - From: "Dan Finn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 2:20 AM > I want to upgrade OpenSSH/OpenSSL and I only want to have to use the > ports tree to do this. What is the best way to do this? If possible > I would like to over write my existing base in

Re: upgrading openssl/openssh only using ports

2004-09-30 Thread Subhro
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:20:01 -0700, Dan Finn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to upgrade OpenSSH/OpenSSL and I only want to have to use the > ports tree to do this. What is the best way to do this? Just cd to the ports directory and make all install clean >f possible > I would like to over

Re: Upgrading Sendmail's DB

2004-09-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:35:48PM -0500, antenneX wrote: > Running FBSD-4.10p2/Sendmail-8.12.11 > > I want to upgrade the Sendmail's Berkley DB to 4.2x, but since Sendmail > is part of my base OS, what is best way to recompile Sendmail with the > new DB? > > BTW, I use sources if not evident. >

Re: upgrading gcc-2.95 to gcc-3.3

2004-08-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 02), SP Network Solutions said: > Yes, im aware that it installed in it own folder.. > /usr/local/bin/gcc33 > > I've already installed it in my system and tried this; > /usr/local/bin/gcc33 -v > > it show this: > gcc version 3.3.4 20040505 (prerelease) [FreeBSD] > > Is t

Re: upgrading gcc-2.95 to gcc-3.3

2004-08-01 Thread Bill Moran
Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 02), SP Network Solutions said: > > Currently my machine (FreeBSD 4.1) using gcc-2.95 which is running > > perfectly. however, I need to upgrade it to gcc-3.3 which i've did via > > /usr/ports/lang/gcc33 > > > > everything when smoo

Re: upgrading gcc-2.95 to gcc-3.3

2004-08-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 02), SP Network Solutions said: > Currently my machine (FreeBSD 4.1) using gcc-2.95 which is running > perfectly. however, I need to upgrade it to gcc-3.3 which i've did via > /usr/ports/lang/gcc33 > > everything when smooth and installed. > > but when I type gcc -v it st

Re: upgrading gcc-2.95 to gcc-3.3

2004-08-01 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
quot;SP Network Solutions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 7:16 AM > Subject: Re: upgrading gcc-2.95 to gcc-3.3 > > > > On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 06:45:50 +0800 > > "SP Network Solutions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: upgrading gcc-2.95 to gcc-3.3

2004-08-01 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 06:45:50 +0800 "SP Network Solutions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > Currently my machine (FreeBSD 4.1) using gcc-2.95 which is running > perfectly. however, I need to upgrade it to gcc-3.3 which i've did via > /usr/ports/lang/gcc33 > > everything when smooth and

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:15:21PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Brent Bailey writes: > > > > > The customer is running a file server samba also running apache > > > running FBSD 4.2, he wants to upgrade using cvsup & the make > > > buildworld procedure to upgrade to 5.x. > > why they want

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> Brent Bailey writes: > > > The customer is running a file server samba also running apache > > running FBSD 4.2, he wants to upgrade using cvsup & the make > > buildworld procedure to upgrade to 5.x. why they want an upgrade as 4.2 works fine? smells like windows. ___

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 17:14:22 -0400 > From: epilogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:50:13 +0200 > Remko Lodder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brent Bailey wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread epilogue
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 17:14:22 -0400 epilogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:50:13 +0200 > Remko Lodder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brent Bailey wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd > > > systems that are pret

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread epilogue
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:50:13 +0200 Remko Lodder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brent Bailey wrote: > > > Hello, > > My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd > > systems that are pretty old. The customer is running a file server > > samba also running apache running FBSD

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread Andrew J Caines
Conventional wisdom is that upgrading over major versions is an interesting academic exercise and an a great display of the power and flexibility of the platform, but that if you're just trying to get a working system then a clean install is the preferred method. With good separation of system, ap

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread Helge Oldach
Remko Lodder: >Brent Bailey wrote: > >> Hello, >> My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd >> systems that are pretty old. The customer is running a file server samba >> also running apache running FBSD 4.2, he wants to upgrade using cvsup & >> the make buildworld proc

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Remko Lodder wrote: Brent Bailey wrote: Hello, My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd systems that are pretty old. The customer is running a file server samba also running apache running FBSD 4.2, he wants to upgrade using cvsup & the make buildworld procedure to upg

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread Remko Lodder
Brent Bailey wrote: Hello, My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd systems that are pretty old. The customer is running a file server samba also running apache running FBSD 4.2, he wants to upgrade using cvsup & the make buildworld procedure to upgrade to 5.x. Im very

Re: Upgrading MySQL strategies

2004-06-24 Thread Doug Poland
David Fuchs said: > Doug Poland wrote: >> Does someone have a strategy for upgrading MySQL? > > >> I've searched the archives and have turned up nothing useful. One would >> think this would be covered in MySQL's excellent on-line docs, but I >> could find no mention of upgrading. >> > > Hi Doug

Re: Upgrading MySQL strategies

2004-06-24 Thread David Fuchs
Doug Poland wrote: Does someone have a strategy for upgrading MySQL? > I've searched the archives and have turned up nothing useful. One would think this would be covered in MySQL's excellent on-line docs, but I could find no mention of upgrading. Hi Doug, As a rule, you shouldn't trust that yo

Re: Upgrading Expat2 in FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-06-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 21 June 2004 12:16 pm, Lonnie Santella wrote: > In order to install latest ports of Apache1.3 and MySQL 4.20 - I > received a system error informing me to upgrade expat2. > > So I run my CVSUP get all the latest ports, then run it again with > just upgrading the BASE. > > Now I upgrade to

Re: Upgrading openssh

2004-06-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 04:52:24PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: > On Thursday 17 June 2004 10:41, Nagilum wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > > > The base version of openssh is updated frequently (especially if any > > vulnerabilities are discovered), so why bother with the port? > > > > Kind regards, > > Alex. >

Re: Upgrading openssh

2004-06-17 Thread Eric Crist
On Thursday 17 June 2004 10:41, Nagilum wrote: > Hi Eric, > > The base version of openssh is updated frequently (especially if any > vulnerabilities are discovered), so why bother with the port? > > Kind regards, > Alex. > > Eric Crist wrote: > >After figuring out perl (with the help of Matthew, I

Re: Upgrading openssh

2004-06-17 Thread Nagilum
Hi Eric, The base version of openssh is updated frequently (especially if any vulnerabilities are discovered), so why bother with the port? Kind regards, Alex. Eric Crist wrote: After figuring out perl (with the help of Matthew, I was wondering what the proper way to install/upgrade openssh. I

Re: upgrading the perl installation problems.

2004-06-12 Thread Eric Crist
On Saturday 12 June 2004 02:25, you wrote: > You're missing one of the last warnings during the make of perl5.x from the > ports tree.. > use.perl. > > Usage: > /usr/local/bin/use.perl port -> /usr/bin/perl is the perl5 port > /usr/local/bin/use.perl system -> /usr/bin/perl is the sys

Re: upgrading the perl installation problems.

2004-06-12 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Eric Crist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 2:13 AM Subject: upgrading the perl installation problems. Hello list, I'm trying to install mimedefang from ports, but I get the error: ===> mimedefang-2.43_1 Port requi

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Peter Pauly wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:54:26PM -0400, JJB wrote: > > Are these supervisor cards unique to IBM & HP? > > Can the card be bought separately and will they work on generic > > motherboard? > > Do you have URL for info on these supervisor cards? > > They

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-11 Thread Peter Pauly
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:54:26PM -0400, JJB wrote: > Are these supervisor cards unique to IBM & HP? > Can the card be bought separately and will they work on generic > motherboard? > Do you have URL for info on these supervisor cards? They are unique to each manufacturer. I am not aware of a ge

RE: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-11 Thread JJB
e 11, 2004 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:41:15PM +0200, 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 a

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-11 Thread Peter Pauly
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:41:15PM +0200, 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. This may or may not be an option for you: both IBM and HP (Compaq) offer r

RE: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-07 Thread Roman Kennke
Ok, thank you all for response. As far as I see things now, the best way to upgrade from one stable release to the next is via source upgrade. Configuration files probably need some attention, because mergemaster cannot be run remotely. Upgrading from one major release to the next (4.x -> 5.x) is p

RE: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-07 Thread Lucas Holt
Of course you wouldn't want to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 remotely. You have to fix things between these two releases in single user. In my case, the userland wouldn't completely install. I had to manually copy files from the build directory to their locations on the file system in order to get thi

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, 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 S

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Robert Huff
Roman Kennke writes: > All I want is not reinstalling the system after every few > releases. My first installation of FreeBSD was 2.0.5. Since then I have done a clean install for x.0 releases - as a matter of policy (excuse to upgrade hardware, plus it cleans out orphaned files) but

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Roman Kennke wrote: All I want is not reinstalling the system after every few releases. The FreeBSD team should care about an possibility to easily upgrade from at least one point release to another. Only my suggestion. Have you read the Handbook chapter called "The Cutting Edge

RE: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread JJB
ssage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Stewart Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 5:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Remko Lodder; Roman Kennke Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:44 pm, Remko Lodder wrote: > Hey Roman, > > Roma

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Roman Kennke
Am Mo, den 07.06.2004 schrieb Kent Stewart um 0:03: > On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:55 pm, Roman Kennke wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > 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), > > > > .. > > > > >

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:55 pm, Roman Kennke wrote: > Hi, > > > > > 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), > > .. > > > > Apart from that i updated my systems many times, without being in > >

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Roman Kennke
Hi, > > > 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), .. > > Apart from that i updated my systems many times, without being in > > single user mode, with an ssh connection. > > This doesn't work on the upgr

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:44 pm, Remko Lodder wrote: > 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 w

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Remko Lodder
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 u

Re: Upgrading to 4.10 using cvsup(Pleeeease! I'm halfway there!!!)

2004-06-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:36:46PM +0200, Henrik W Lund wrote: > As Mr. Simon Barner stated, you can save a whole lot of downloading by > first installing the 4.9 sources off of the CD-ROM, then cvsupping using > the supfile you just made. This will get you only those files that are > different

Re: Upgrading to 4.10 using cvsup(Pleeeease! I'm halfway there!!!)

2004-06-03 Thread Henrik W Lund
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: I'm currently on freebsd 4.9 and wanted to upgrade to 4.10 using cvsup This is my supfile *default host=cvsup1.ph.FReeBSD.org (Philippines... my home) *default base=/usr (...said this is to track down the download status... right?) *default prefix=/usr (...said this is th

Re: Upgrading to 4.10 using cvsup(Pleeeease! I'm halfway there!!!)

2004-06-02 Thread Simon Barner
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > I'm currently on freebsd 4.9 and wanted to upgrade to > 4.10 using cvsup > > This is my supfile [...] Hi, do yourself a favor and use a copy of the example supfile /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile The only thing you need to change is the `host' line. If yo

Re: upgrading ports, skipping or deferring from automatic upgrades

2004-05-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 04:59:57AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On the other hand, is there maybe a simple way to tell portupgrade > *never* to upgrade specific ports unless they are forced or > specified singly? There is. That's what the HOLD_PKGS array in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf is for. Th

Re: Upgrading OpenLDAP 2.1.30 to 2.2.x

2004-05-16 Thread Chiang Seng Chang
An additional question, does nss_ldap and pam_ldap works with openldap 2.2 ? -cs Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Can portupgrade be used to upgrade OpenLDAP 2.1.x to 2.2.x by changing WITH_OPENLDAP_VER in my /etc/make.conf file to 22? Or do I have to deinstall the 21 package, and reinstall 22 and everyth

Re: Upgrading OpenLDAP 2.1.30 to 2.2.x

2004-05-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 12:35:04PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 11:24, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > That means that all of the applications linked against the LDAP shlibs > > have suddenly stopped working. To fix them, all you need do is > > reinstall -- the situation is a

Re: Upgrading OpenLDAP 2.1.30 to 2.2.x

2004-05-16 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 11:24, Matthew Seaman wrote: > That means that all of the applications linked against the LDAP shlibs > have suddenly stopped working. To fix them, all you need do is > reinstall -- the situation is analogous to the problem with > 'libintl.so.N no found' thing that keeps comi

Re: Upgrading OpenLDAP 2.1.30 to 2.2.x

2004-05-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 10:25:33AM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > Can portupgrade be used to upgrade OpenLDAP 2.1.x to 2.2.x by changing > WITH_OPENLDAP_VER in my /etc/make.conf file to 22? Or do I have to > deinstall the 21 package, and reinstall 22 and everything that depends > on it? You ca

Re: Upgrading Postfix 2.0.16 to 2.1.1

2004-05-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: > Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I notice the portupgrade for Postfix will take me to version 2.1.1 from my current > > version of 2.0.16 on FreeBSD 5.2.1. Of course, I will check the RELEASE NOTES and > > I also know some of the syntax in my main.cf

Re: Upgrading Postfix 2.0.16 to 2.1.1

2004-05-15 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I notice the portupgrade for Postfix will take me to version 2.1.1 from my current version of 2.0.16 on FreeBSD 5.2.1. Of course, I will check the RELEASE NOTES and I also know some of the syntax in my main.cf will need to change. Just want to see here if there is anyth

Re: Upgrading a port....

2004-04-25 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Ralph M. Los <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-25 10:14]: > Hi, > I currently have Samba 2.2.8a running. I'd like to get up to > the 3.0.x.x version, as I've heard there are significant advances in > that version. Can someone tell me if I do a 'make install' from the > /usr/ports/net/samba-dev

Re: Upgrading a port....

2004-04-25 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 01:03:52PM -0400, Ralph M. Los wrote: > I currently have Samba 2.2.8a running. I'd like to get up to > the 3.0.x.x version, as I've heard there are significant advances in > that version. Can someone tell me if I do a 'make install' from the > /usr/ports/net/samba-de

Re: upgrading Gnome components using portupgrade

2004-04-16 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 16 April 2004 12:42 pm, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:52:04 -0700, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 16 April 2004 11:39 am, sAndri Kok wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> I have what I believe are Gnome components installed on my > >> computer (gimp, Gc

Re: upgrading Gnome components using portupgrade

2004-04-16 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:52:04 -0700, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 16 April 2004 11:39 am, sAndri Kok wrote: Hi guys, I have what I believe are Gnome components installed on my computer (gimp, Gconf, gtk, glib, etc). I'm running portupgrade now and I read the message that I sho

Re: upgrading Gnome components using portupgrade

2004-04-16 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 16 April 2004 11:39 am, sAndri Kok wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have what I believe are Gnome components installed on my computer > (gimp, Gconf, gtk, glib, etc). I'm running portupgrade now and I read > the message that I should upgrade Gnome using the script provided by > FreeBSD Gnome. The

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