Comments on: How To Upgrade FreeBSD 7.0 to 7.1 Stable Release

By: J. Ruigrok van der Werven

J. Ruigrok van der Werven — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:31:15 +0000

Right now I’d hold off on the upgrade a bit longer. Various people, including yours truly, have had vague kernel hangs with 7.1-STABLE that did not occur prior. So if you need it for production runs, be advised. If you have time and debugging efforts to spare, please do. See the stable list of the first 2-3 weeks of January 2009 for more details.

By: Oli

Oli — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:54:04 +0000

“You also need to update all packages”… Well, as you write, “portupgrade -a” will just update outdated packages, I guess you mean “portupgrade -af” ? Or is it *really* required to recompile all packages? On my system, it doesn’t seem to be the case (7.0 -> 7.1, with mysql, php, apache, etc.)

regards, Oli

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Thomas — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:32:19 +0000

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