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Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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    rds_correia
    last edited by Nov 20, 2005, 1:38 PM

    This may sound silly but I have been asking myself this for a long time…
    Imagine that 0.97.0 is release, that is, full-release.
    Then imagine that after a couple of days we already have two updates, 0.97.2 and 0.97.4.
    Now the real question is: can we just upgrade directly to 0.97.4 or do we need to first upgrade to 0.97.2 and only then to 0.97.4?
    I have always loaded all the intermediate upgrades just to keep it on the safe side…
    But occasionally it could save some minutes if I could patch it only with the latest upgrade and that's why I'm asking ;-).
    Cheers

    pfSense 2.2.4 running on a HP DL385 G5
    WAN bce(4) + LAN em(4) + OPTn em(4) with 10 VLANs + Snort + PPTP VPN soon to be trashed by OVPN

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      Myntric
      last edited by Nov 20, 2005, 4:01 PM

      Anyone correct me if I'm wrong, but it is possible to simply upgrade to the latest release.  The updates occur via a tarball that blindly updates all of the files.  Whether this will change in the future and incorporate a "diff" process or something of that sort, I'm not certain.  Thanks!

      Mike

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        sullrich
        last edited by Nov 20, 2005, 5:27 PM Nov 20, 2005, 4:51 PM

        All of this is temporary.  We have a very smart binary diff update system that will handle updating.  It's on our list to complete in the next couple weeks as we wind down from fixing bugs.

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          rds_correia
          last edited by Nov 20, 2005, 9:52 PM

          Sorry to keep this topic running but English is not my native language… ::)
          I'm still not 100% sure about this even after your comments on it ???.
          Simple question: if I have a WRAP 0.90 running on my box can I take the most recent 2..5 MB release update (let's say a 0.97) and update it without doing all the intermediate updates?

          pfSense 2.2.4 running on a HP DL385 G5
          WAN bce(4) + LAN em(4) + OPTn em(4) with 10 VLANs + Snort + PPTP VPN soon to be trashed by OVPN

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            sullrich
            last edited by Nov 20, 2005, 9:54 PM

            @rds_correia:

            Sorry to keep this topic running but English is not my native language… ::)
            I'm still not 100% sure about this even after your comments on it ???.
            Simple question: if I have a WRAP 0.90 running on my box can I take the most recent 2..5 MB release update (let's say a 0.97) and update it without doing all the intermediate updates?

            Yes.  These are accumulative (think M$ service packs).

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              rds_correia
              last edited by Nov 20, 2005, 10:06 PM

              Geee, thanks Scott.
              That will definately save me a lot of time while upgrading my boxes ;).
              Cheers

              pfSense 2.2.4 running on a HP DL385 G5
              WAN bce(4) + LAN em(4) + OPTn em(4) with 10 VLANs + Snort + PPTP VPN soon to be trashed by OVPN

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