On Thu, 07 May 2009 09:40:52 +0200, "Matthias Andree" <m...@dt.e-technik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > Am 05.05.2009, 09:46 Uhr, schrieb Daniel Gerzo <dan...@freebsd.org>: > >> Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> >>> I always use -iU too. >>> I've lost motd, passwd, group and master.passwd >>> During mergemaster -p I was asked to merge changes to some of these, and >>> still they were replaced with the newer versions. I don't know what went >>> wrong but have restored them from backup. (I always tar /etc before a >>> source upgrade). Upgrading another system using freebsd-update did not >>> cause any problem. >> >> I have the same experience while I was upgrading a few machines >> upgrading from RELENG_7 to RELENG_7_2. I haven't experienced when >> upgrading from 7.1-R to 7.2-R. > > Careful there - RELENG_7 is _newer_ than RELENG_7_2. The latter is > branched off RELENG_7 at some point and progresses much slower (as in: > errata and security, but no development), so that's no "update", but often > > the reverse.
That's not definitely true all the time. You could for example update your 7.1 to releng_7, say in Sept. 2008, then run this box until releng_7_2 was branched and when you update to it at that point you actually are doing an update, definitely not a downgrade. -- Kind regards Daniel _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
