Major version upgrade and poudriere

[hannsmattes]

Hi,

hope, this is the right forum to ask.

I want to upgrade vom 13.5 to 14.0. I build my own packages with poudriere. It's my first major upgrade, so I'm a bit nervous.


As far as I understand, the correct moment to create a new poudriere environment and compiling the packages wourd be before the last run of freebsd-update install, then upgrade the packages and finish the process. Is this correct?

Regards Hanns

 

[SirDice]

I want to upgrade vom 13.5 to 14.0.

14.3 I hope. You don't have to go through all the minor versions. Just go from 13.5 to 14.3 in one go.

As far as I understand, the correct moment to create a new poudriere environment and compiling the packages wourd be before the last run of freebsd-update install, then upgrade the packages and finish the process. Is this correct?

Yes, between the second and third freebsd-update install is the best time. It will inform you to do so too. First install only upgrades the kernel, second upgrades the userland, the third removes libraries and other things from the previous version.

So, after the second install round, and a reboot, build a 14.3-RELEASE jail in poudriere and start your bulk build. When that's done upgrade all your packages on the host, then run the third and final freebsd-update install.

Make sure your custom package repo is pointing at the right directory when you upgrade the host though.