Re: easy way to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.1 (including port packages)

2008-10-27 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:26:03 +0100 martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like a more general purpose utility, be it mergemaster or sth > else. I like the way mergemaster works but I'd like to use it not > only for /etc (after make) -- I'd like to point it to my backup > directory which doesn't

Re: easy way to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.1 (including port packages)

2008-10-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > I'd like a more general purpose utility, be it mergemaster or sth else. > I like the way mergemaster works but I'd like to use it not only for > /etc (after make) -- I'd like to point it to my backup directory which > doesn't co

Re: easy way to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.1 (including port packages)

2008-10-27 Thread martinko
Oliver Fromme wrote: martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1) I wonder if I could use mergemaster to compare 2 directories and > > > merge differencies as neccessary. To explain: I have all config files I > > > touch save

Re: easy way to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.1 (including port packages)

2008-10-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1) I wonder if I could use mergemaster to compare 2 directories and > > > merge differencies as neccessary. To explain: I have all config files I > > > touch saved with full path somewh

Re: easy way to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.1 (including port packages)

2008-10-25 Thread martinko
Oliver Fromme wrote: martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) I wonder if I could use mergemaster to compare 2 directories and > merge differencies as neccessary. To explain: I have all config files I > touch saved with full path somewhere in /root. And therefore I'd like > mergemaster

Re: easy way to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.1 (including port packages)

2008-10-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) I wonder if I could use mergemaster to compare 2 directories and > merge differencies as neccessary. To explain: I have all config files I > touch saved with full path somewhere in /root. And therefore I'd like > mergemaster or some other tool to c

Re: easy way to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.1 (including port packages)

2008-10-20 Thread martinko
Doug Barton wrote: The generally accepted wisdom (which I am repeating because I agree with it) is that when updating major versions you should: 1. Carefully back up your configuration files and data 2. Do a clean install of the new version 3. Update configuration files 4. Restore data 5. Re-in

Re: easy way to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.1 (including port packages)

2008-09-21 Thread Doug Barton
Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > in my experience, in usual kernel && userland upgrading is good, > however, everytime port upgrading have problem, whenever new -REL is > released ;; i usually do port upgrading by portupgrade(1). > > at once(when 6.2-REL was released) i did upgrading port by > portupgrade

Re: easy way to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.1 (including port packages)

2008-09-21 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 09:48 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > > in my experience, in usual kernel && userland upgrading is good, > > however, everytime port upgrading have problem, whenever new -REL is > > released ;; i usually do port upgrading by portupgrade(1). > > > > at onc

easy way to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.1 (including port packages)

2008-09-21 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
in my experience, in usual kernel && userland upgrading is good, however, everytime port upgrading have problem, whenever new -REL is released ;; i usually do port upgrading by portupgrade(1). at once(when 6.2-REL was released) i did upgrading port by portupgrade(1) but i met failures on the upgra