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Subject: Re: Problems upgrading from 4.1.1 to 4_9_RELENG
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> You could have done a binary upgrade, put your old /etc back in place
> and run mergemaster with an up-to-date source tree.

Would it actually be safe to do a binary upgrade from and early 4 series to 
STABLE?  That scares the life out of me.  If it would work, I would applaud the 
FREEBSD developers, but it seems like a heck of jump.
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