On Saturday 01 September 2007 21:36:50 Joshua Isom wrote: > I'm about to downgrade from -CURRENT to 6-STABLE, and since I can't > seem do it in place without screwing around with a lot of stuff, I > might need to reinstall completely.
The proper way to downgrade is to restore the level 0 backups you made before upgrading, as outlined in /usr/src/UPDATING. Downgrades are especially hard. > But which configuration files are > the ones I need to backup the most? I know rc.conf and loader.conf, > but what else would be needed to easily restore the setup of the > system? Would I just somehow be able to use mergemaster to get a diff > and manually apply everything? /etc/periodic.conf, /etc/master.passwd aside from the ones you mentioned. Also, any dir in /etc/ that's not from the base system (/etc/X11* comes to mind). To save yourself a headache, I'd rm -rf /etc/rc.d before doing installworld and run mergemaster as mergemaster -i. I *think* mergemaster just checks if a CVSId is different, not older. Same for make delete-old whether a file is in the base system and not in the source tree. Let's hope for your sake it is :) -- Mel People using reply to all on lists, must think I need 2 copies. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
