Re: A backwards approach to upgrading.

2007-04-05 Thread Frank Bax
At 02:22 PM 4/4/07, Peter Fraser wrote: I use an approach to upgrading that I have not seen written anywhere. It does need additional space in the root partition but with disks these days that is not normally a problem. First copy away the "important parts" of the root partition onto another pa

Re: A backwards approach to upgrading.

2007-04-04 Thread Henning Brauer
compared to the regular approach, this is certainly backwards. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam

Re: A backwards approach to upgrading.

2007-04-04 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:01:11PM -0400, Peter Fraser wrote: > [...] If you REALLY wish to get rid of all these old > files, you are probably better off reinstalling from scratch. Well, that's of course correct, but there are ways to identify (and remove) obsolete files and libraries after an upg

Re: A backwards approach to upgrading.

2007-04-04 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Matthias Kilian wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:22:46PM -0400, Peter Fraser wrote: I use an approach to upgrading that I have not seen written anywhere. It does need additional space in the root partition but with disks these days that is not normally a problem. [...] I really don't

Re: A backwards approach to upgrading.

2007-04-04 Thread Walter Goulet
id of all these old > files, you are probably better off reinstalling from scratch. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Walter Goulet > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:33 PM > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re:

Re: A backwards approach to upgrading.

2007-04-04 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:22:46PM -0400, Peter Fraser wrote: > I use an approach to upgrading that I have not seen written > anywhere. It does need additional space in the root partition > but with disks these days that is not normally a problem. [...] I really don't see any benefit compared to t

Re: A backwards approach to upgrading.

2007-04-04 Thread Peter Fraser
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walter Goulet Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:33 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: A backwards approach to upgrading. What problem with the existing upgrade procedures is solved with your new approach?

Re: A backwards approach to upgrading.

2007-04-04 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Peter Fraser wrote: > I use an approach to upgrading that I have not seen written > anywhere. It does need additional space in the root partition > but with disks these days that is not normally a problem. > > First copy away the "important parts" of the root partition > onto

Re: A backwards approach to upgrading.

2007-04-04 Thread Walter Goulet
What problem with the existing upgrade procedures is solved with your new approach? On 4/4/07, Peter Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use an approach to upgrading that I have not seen written anywhere. It does need additional space in the root partition but with disks these days that is not n

A backwards approach to upgrading.

2007-04-04 Thread Peter Fraser
I use an approach to upgrading that I have not seen written anywhere. It does need additional space in the root partition but with disks these days that is not normally a problem. First copy away the "important parts" of the root partition onto another partition. What is the "important parts" is u