8-stable -> 9-current upgrade

David Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org
Thu Sep 8 18:07:59 UTC 2011


On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 07:59:59PM +0200, Olivier Smedts wrote:
> ...
> > I augment the instructions from UPDATING, prefixing the "make
> > installworld" itself with:
> >
> > rm -fr /usr/include.old && mv /usr/include{,.old} && \
> > rm -fr /usr/share/man
> >
> > Thus, I have reasonable confidence that the newly-installed world has no
> > significant "pollution" from the old world, at least in /usr/include and
> > /usr/share/man.  (Libraries are a different matter -- and addressed
> > differently.)
> 
> # cd /usr/src
> # make delete-old
> would be less hack-ish

Per src/UPDATING and comments in src/Makefile, that is done *after*
"make installworld" -- and yes, I do that, as well (as well as the
"make delete-old-libs" after the reboot).

Peace,
david
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