Re: Upgrading through several versions via anoncvs

2006-09-14 Thread Nick Holland
Stuart Henderson wrote: ... > and, if you use a snapshot, > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade40.htXXml not yet, please...this file is unlinked for a reason. Not only is this file untested, it is blatantly incomplete (and previously, it was blatantly wrong). If you wish to get a head-start, watch

Re: Upgrading through several versions via anoncvs

2006-09-14 Thread Bob Beck
> * Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-14 14:11]: > > Unless you remove and re-add all your packages, the pkg_* > > tools won't work as smoothly as they should. > > this is untrue. > > pkg_add -u does a wonderful job, even on ancient installed packages. > > I just had such an upgrade,

Re: Upgrading through several versions via anoncvs

2006-09-14 Thread Henning Brauer
* Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-14 14:11]: > Unless you remove and re-add all your packages, the pkg_* > tools won't work as smoothly as they should. this is untrue. pkg_add -u does a wonderful job, even on ancient installed packages. I just had such an upgrade, and only ran into

Re: Upgrading through several versions via anoncvs

2006-09-14 Thread Luca Corti
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 15:12 +0400, Igor Zinovik wrote: > I have old box which runs OpenBSD 3.6 and i want to upgrade it to last > release. > So my question is can go directly to OPENBSD_3_9 or i have to go through all > further versions (3.6->3.7->3.8->3.9)? I'm worry about that further versions

Re: Upgrading through several versions via anoncvs

2006-09-14 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Igor, > I have old box which runs OpenBSD 3.6 and i want to upgrade it to last > release. So my question is can go directly to OPENBSD_3_9 or i have to > go through all further versions (3.6->3.7->3.8->3.9)? I'm worry about > that further versions switched to new compiler (this box has gcc-2.95

Re: Upgrading through several versions via anoncvs

2006-09-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/09/14 15:12, Igor Zinovik wrote: > I have old box which runs OpenBSD 3.6 and i want to upgrade > it to last release. Don't upgrade by anoncvs, use binary upgrades to get you as close as possible to the version you want and follow the steps to upgrade /etc and so on from the FAQ; http://w