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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 upgrade path from 2.0.5
Date: 7 Oct 1995 08:04:22 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@time.cdrom.com) wrote:
: Actually, I am putting an "Upgrade" option in the 2.1 install. I
: finally got sick enough of the problem to do something about it
: personally. It should be out in the snapshot-after-next for testing.
: I'm willing to entertain suggestions about what kinds of things those
: of you contemplating an upgrade from 2.0.x to 2.1 would like to see -
: it's not too late! I've only just started the implementation phase.
: So far, it will basically mount up all your former partitions, copy
: your /etc someplace, extract the selected dists over the top and then
: resurrect old /etc into new as best possible using some very simple
: heuristics for deciding when to copy old back over new. Finally, it
: dumps you into a shell on the new system and lets you poke around
: and/or adjust stuff as you see fit before rebooting. That's all it
: does, that's the "upgrade." Anyone feeling strongly that it should be
: more is definitely encouraged to contact me ASAP.
: Jordan
i think it also should look for files no longer existent in the new release
(if such files exist) - also it would be good to rename all old files which
will be replaced with an unique ending and give an option to sysinstall (i
think it is also usable after the installation - am i right ?) to remove all
the old files (i. e. all files with that unique ending - a simple find would
do this) - this way the risk of loosing important files is reduced - the
third think is - i think it should also look at the X11R6 dir - if it is
there for the XF86Config file and the configs from xdm and xinit and maybe
if there are any new fonts installed
hope this helps - t
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