How to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0

SirDice · Dec 9, 2009

DutchDaemon said:
8-STABLE to be exact

Currently it says 8.0-STABLE:

Code:

dice@molly:~>uname -a
FreeBSD molly.dicelan.home 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Mon Dec  7 20:31:55 CET 2009     root@molly.dicelan.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOLLY8  i386

And yes, it will progress to 8.1-STABLE, 8.2-STABLE etc.

SeaHag · Dec 9, 2009

lumiwa said:
Try this site:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-07-11-freebsd-update-to-8.0-beta1.html

After following that guide when I try to startx I get this error;

Code:

/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "librpcsvc.so.4" not found, required by "libXext.so.6"

zeiz · Dec 9, 2009

If you are lucky you now have 8-STABLE and you can update it daily if you want.

That's what I wrote in that post

DutchDaemon · Dec 9, 2009

@SeaHag

Did you recompile all of your ports? You should. For now, you could try installing the misc/compat7x port to get missing libraries back.

sixtydoses · Dec 10, 2009

DutchDaemon said:
@SeaHag

Did you recompile all of your ports? You should. For now, you could try installing the misc/compat7x port to get missing libraries back.

But if he is going to upgrade by source to 8-STABLE using the GENERIC kernel, he doesn't have to install the compat7x port, no? Since the COMPAT_FREEBSD7 option is included in GENERIC by default?

Thanks.

SeaHag · Dec 10, 2009

DutchDaemon said:
@SeaHag

Did you recompile all of your ports? You should. For now, you could try installing the misc/compat7x port to get missing libraries back.

Yes, I followed this guide step by step;

Code:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009...8.0-beta1.html

I ran portupgrade -af twice but still doesn't work.

DutchDaemon · Dec 10, 2009

sixtydoses said:
But if he is going to upgrade by source to 8-STABLE using the GENERIC kernel, he doesn't have to install the compat7x port, no? Since the COMPAT_FREEBSD7 option is included in GENERIC by default?

As far as I know, the kernel option provides the framework, the port supplies the libraries used within that framework.

fronclynne · Dec 10, 2009

sixtydoses said:
But if he is going to upgrade by source to 8-STABLE using the GENERIC kernel, he doesn't have to install the compat7x port, no? Since the COMPAT_FREEBSD7 option is included in GENERIC by default?

Thanks.

COMPAT_FREEBSD7 is for binary compatibility, i.e. your kernel can run 7.x binaries natively.

The misc/compat7x port provides legacy libraries for binaries which have been linked against them.

vigol · Dec 11, 2009

I tried this but after the first reboot the usb mouse doesn't work in X anymore but works in the shell...

I don't you solve it or not, if not:
When a ums0 mouse is detected and work in shell but don't work in X, it's a symptom of missing /etc/X11/xorg.conf files.

Xorg -configure

refer to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

for detailed infos

jotawski · Dec 17, 2009

SeaHag said:
After spending lots of time searching the net I can't find any way to upgrade my system from 7.2 to 8.0. Can someone please point me in the right direction? I don't want to do a binary upgrade but want to upgrade from source. I normally use portsnap. Can we use that or do we have to use cvsup?

please cvsup to get a fresh set of source files for your system. and do a series of make buildworld/buidlkernel/installkernel/installworld with mergemaster in between as suggested.

now

# cd /usr/src
# make delete-old
# make delete-old-libs

(i got this from DutchDaemon) this shall delete all remnants of old system from your new one.

the next step is to aim at your interest, a few ports.

have a good luck.

regards,
jotawski

How to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0

SirDice

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SeaHag

zeiz

DutchDaemon

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sixtydoses

SeaHag

DutchDaemon

Administrator

fronclynne

vigol

jotawski