Re: 8-stable -> 9-current upgrade

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Niclas Zeising
<niclas.zeising_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011-09-08 02:12, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> I've been looking for any information on any special steps required to
>> update from 8-stable to
>> 9-current. /usr/src/UPDATING is a bit out of date as it has
>> instructions for going from 5-stable
>> to "current", although the instruction may well be the same.
>>
>> I am particularly concerned with things like header files
>> (/usr/include) that might bite me if not
>> deleted.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> I did this upgrade not too long ago (a week or maybe two) and as far as
> I can tell there aren't that many special steps needed. Firstly I did
> compare my custom kernel config to the 9-CURRENT generic one. Be careful
> around the NFS options since they've changed names, as well as
> COMPAT_TTY which isn't in generic anymore and P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES which
> also is gone. There might be some more options, but this is what I can
> remember on top of my head. You also might want to check src.conf if you
> use that, since there are some new options added there.
> After that there's just to build world and kernel, and install them, as
> per usual. I had some trouble building clang, so I disabled that, and
> then rebuild world and clang when 9-current was installed. Be careful
> also of make delete-old-libs, since some libs have had their version
> number bumped, which will make ports fail, unless you recompile those as
> well.
> During the mergemaster "phase" there's plenty of stuff to be merged.
> Some is just version numbers, other is content as well. For instance, in
> newsyslog.conf the entry for utmp is gone, replaced with utx.log and a
> lot of other stuff. There has also been some changes to how network
> interfaces are handled in rc.conf. There might be backwards compability
> shims for now, but I don't know since I changed them to the new default
> instead.
> I hope this helps, and good luck with your upgrade! Let me know if I
> missed out on any details.
> Regards!
> --
> Niclas
>

Thank you, Niclas.

Between this and both on-list and private notes from David
Wolfskill, I'm feeling pretty comfortable about this. I might even
give it a shot later
today, if I have time. Guess I'm still a bit paranoid all this time after the
4-stable->current and 5-stable->current upgrades. Those were a bit tricky. I
stayed with current, so never did 6->7-current or 7-current to 8-current
upgrades.

I'm especially anxious to try the KMS patches to see if I can get my graphics
to finally display with the correct aspect ratio.

Again, thanks!
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
E-mail: kob6558_at_gmail.com