On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida_at_ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2009 09:30:41 -0400, "Paul Stewart" <paul_at_paulstewart.org> wrote: >> Hi there. >> >> As I'm slowly getting used to FreeBSD (again), I recently upgraded >> three boxes to 7.2-RELEASE. Two of them were running 7.1-RELEASE and >> one was running 7.2-RC2 .. >> >> Anyways, I used freebsd-update to upgrade - in my previous experiences >> I would have to do a "make world" etc. etc. >> >> Which method is most preferred - source or binary upgrading? I don't >> mind source upgrading but is it really necessary anymore if using >> freebsd-update on a regular basis? > > If you don't need local patches or a custom kernel, and you can use the > GENERIC kernel configured to match your hardware setup, then it probably > makes a lot of sense to use freebsd-update. It will usually be much > faster than compiling everything from source. I don't know if it's officially supported, but I did an hybrid upgrade using freebsd-update for the base and building the custom kernel from sources, it worked fine and is still much faster than build everything. -- Renato BotelhoReceived on Tue May 05 2009 - 17:55:32 UTC
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