Okay guys, this is my very first post to the list, so please be nice to me. ;-) I have a simple question. I currently have FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #3 (from May 9, 2004) installed on a semi-production server. I need to update it to 5.3-RELEASE when it becomes available. I've read in src/UPDATING that all installed ports must be rebuilt (after a successful build world and install world, of course). Someone suggested to use 'portupgrade -af' to rebuild all installed ports. But this would take a whole day, especially since it's just a single processor Pentium III system. Shouldn't it be faster to let portupgrade use pre-compiled packages (either from a 5.3-RELEASE install CD or from a remote site)? Something like: 'portupgrade -afP' ? Would it work? This would save a lot of time... a lot of down-time, in fact. Can someone more experienced with portupgrade confirm that this would work? I would really appreciate either a firm yes or a firm no answer. I just need to know the answer to this question from someone who is more knowledgable than I am, before I start doing something stupid... ;-) Thank you guys, all!! ZoltanReceived on Wed Oct 27 2004 - 02:05:02 UTC
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