Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> writes: >> I have a mix of amd64 machines runnong 7.0 and 8.0_RC1 that I plan to >> move to 9.2. [...] > >> What do people think the best way forward would be for me? > > I'd first ask, are you sure you need to switch versions? While there > are plenty of perfectly good reasons to want to, if they're not broken, > there may be no reason to fix them. > > It's not suitable for every use case - far from it! - but that is what > I've done for over two decades with my boxen; I'm running, depending on > the hardware and the task, NetBSD derived from 1.4T, 4.0.1, or 5.2 > (though admittedly the 1.4T ones are off-topic for this list). I have some sympathy for this viewpoint, but 1) older versions don't get security support 2) I run things from pkgsrc, and building recent pkgsrc on old systems goes badly. 9 is better than 8, and 5 is downright troublesome these days. so in order to have all the above-os software have security and bug fixes, I find the OS needs updating. > If you do want to switch, I'd say the best thing to do would be to > clone the remote setups to a non-remote machine (presumably with a few > changes such as drastically shrinking the RAIDframe filesystems) and do > the switch locally, repeatedly if necessary, taking notes as you go, > until you have a script for each remote machine that's known to work. > It's not perfect - it's entirely possible to get tripped up by a > difference you didn't realize existed between the local and remote > machines - but it does reduce the chances that you'll break something > during the switch. That's good advice.
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