Binary Upgrade of FreeBSD 6.0 to 6.1

Several months ago I posted how I used Colin Percival's freebsd-update program to perform a binary upgrade from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0 remotely over SSH. Thanks to Colin's latest work, I was able to successfully perform a binary upgrade from FreeBSD 6.0 to 6.1 remotely over SSH.

hacom:/root/upgrade# uname -a
FreeBSD hacom.taosecurity.com 6.0-SECURITY FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY #0:
 Tue Apr 18 08:56:09 UTC 2006    
 root@builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

hacom:/root# fetch http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-6.0-to-6.1/upgrade-6.0-to-6.1.tgz
upgrade-6.0-to-6.1.tgz                          0% of 4706 kB 
hacom:/root# sha256 upgrade-6.0-to-6.1.tgz
SHA256 (upgrade-6.0-to-6.1.tgz) = 29075fc5711e0b20d879c69d12bbe5414c1c56d597c8116da7acc0d291116d2f
hacom:/root# tar -xzvf upgrade-6.0-to-6.1.tgz
x upgrade
x upgrade/upgrade.sh
x upgrade/6.1-index
x upgrade/6.0-index
hacom:/root# cd upgrade
hacom:/root/upgrade# ./upgrade.sh^M^M
Examining system... done.

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel|generic world|base world|dict world|doc world|manpages

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
kernel|smp src|base src|bin src|contrib src|crypto src|etc src|games
src|gnu src|include src|krb5 src|libexec src|lib src|release src|rescue
src|sbin src|secure src|share src|sys src|tools src|ubin src|usbin
world|catpages world|games world|info world|proflibs^M

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Examining system (this will take a bit longer)... done.

The following files from FreeBSD 6.0 have been modified since they were
installed, but will be deleted or overwritten by new versions:
/.cshrc /root/.cshrc /usr/share/man/whatis

The following files from FreeBSD 6.0 have been modified since they were
installed, and will not be touched:
/etc/hosts /etc/manpath.config /etc/master.passwd /etc/motd /etc/passwd
/etc/pwd.db /etc/shells /etc/spwd.db /etc/ttys /var/db/locate.database
/var/log/sendmail.st

The following files from FreeBSD 6.0 have been modified since they were
installed, and the changes in FreeBSD 6.1 will be merged into the
existing files:
/etc/group

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Preparing to fetch files... done.
Fetching 1729 patches....10....20....30....40....edited...1720.... done.
Applying patches... done.
Fetching 433 files....10....20....30....40....50....60...edited...done.
Decompressing and verifying... done.
Attempting to automatically merge configuration files... done.

The following changes, which occurred between FreeBSD 6.0 and FreeBSD
6.1, have been merged into /etc/group:
--- merge/old/etc/group Thu Jun 29 07:03:59 2006
+++ merge/new/etc/group Thu Jun 29 07:04:00 2006
@@ -41,5 +41,6 @@
 student8:*:1012:
 student9:*:1013:
 student10:*:1014:
 student11:*:1015:
 richard:*:1016:
+audit:*:77:
Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Installing new kernel into /boot/GENERIC... done.
Moving /boot/kernel to /boot/kernel.old... done.
Moving /boot/GENERIC to /boot/kernel... done.
Removing schg flag from existing files... done.
Installing new non-kernel files... done.
Removing left-over files from FreeBSD 6.0... done.
To start running FreeBSD 6.1, reboot.
hacom:/root/upgrade# reboot

hacom# freebsd-update fetch
Fetching updates signature...
Fetching updates...
Fetching hash list signature...
Fetching hash list...
Examining local system...
Fetching updates...
/boot/kernel/smbfs.ko...
/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail...
/usr/sbin/ypserv...
Updates fetched

To install these updates, run: '/usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update install'
hacom# freebsd-update install
Backing up /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko...
Installing new /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko...
Backing up /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail...
Installing new /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail...
Backing up /usr/sbin/ypserv...
Installing new /usr/sbin/ypserv...
hacom# reboot

hacom:/home/richard$ uname -a
FreeBSD hacom.taosecurity.com 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0:
 Sun May  7 04:32:43 UTC 2006    
 root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

I like it. Easy, fast, no compiling and it works. Kudos to Colin!

Comments

C.S.Lee said…
That's real plus point where it makes a equalizer for BSD system when we always hear how easy it is to upgrade Linux system. I hope it will make its way to 6.2 or maybe 7.0 as well so that I don't have to go through the long process.
3:33 PM
Anonymous said…
Thanks M. Bejtlich For this good article!

I like your Blog, your books, your works!
12:11 PM
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