From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Fri Jan 19 16:38:47 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2DAEBB7C4 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:38:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mat@aragorn.in.absolight.net) Received: from prod2.absolight.net (prod2.absolight.net [79.143.243.136]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "plouf.absolight.net", Issuer "CAcert Class 3 Root" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E49776815C for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:38:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mat@aragorn.in.absolight.net) Received: from prod2.absolight.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prod2.absolight.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A737ABDD37; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:38:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from gw.in.absolight.net (gw-ecl.in.absolight.net [79.143.241.69]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "gw.in.absolight.net", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by prod2.absolight.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 875DFBDD35; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:38:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from aragorn.in.absolight.net (aragorn.in.absolight.net [79.143.241.225]) by gw.in.absolight.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13558610F; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:38:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by aragorn.in.absolight.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D4DA63CCF2; Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:38:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:38:43 +0100 From: Mathieu Arnold To: Andrea Brancatelli Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ancient FreeBSD update path Message-ID: <20180119163843.GA2251@aragorn.in.absolight.net> References: <03c972a8f098b1b547da690efaad771f@schema31.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03c972a8f098b1b547da690efaad771f@schema31.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:38:47 -0000 --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 01:28:41PM +0100, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: > Hello guys.=20 >=20 > I have a couple of ancient FreeBSD install that I have to bring into > this century (read either 10.4 or 11.1) :-)=20 >=20 > I'm talking about a FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p4 and a couple of FreeBSD > 9.3-RELEASE-p53.=20 >=20 > What upgrade strategy would you suggest?=20 >=20 > Direct jump into the future (8 -> 11)? Progressive steps (8 -> 9 -> 10 > -> 11)? Boiling water on the HDs? :-)=20 >=20 > Thanks, any suggestion in more than welcome. The *supported* upgrade strategy is to upgrade to the latest version of your current branch, and jump from latest version to latest version. So 8.4 -> 9.3 -> 10.4 -> 11.1. (Note that you can stay at 10.4, it still is supported.) --=20 Mathieu Arnold --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAABCgB9FiEEOraXidLtEhBkQLpbOkUW81GDzkgFAlpiHxBfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDNB QjY5Nzg5RDJFRDEyMTA2NDQwQkE1QjNBNDUxNkYzNTE4M0NFNDgACgkQOkUW81GD zkifoRAAsWJyOTUZFJFNs6DULRJlFBKDQBrASgWVtzYhQ539zJnFlO5v5l+5s55k 0NQGaH+WcGWmjB31/KLltQucnTsMxaLYSNXrgFPhFwIG8PfQzPgnzKprJj++9ReZ pEexhkkZNbrJvu3e+OkG/UHI8unvbDahCLnoRXpp1lFhsDPeSf2hboBZQE1Cq+ex uBkyZdo3cazZXYtcYqejSCTVo+qrIXybMkm+6vp17NZbFxR0qrtpa8bHFdRZjcxH 0iVs/337IeJu7oEyWosVIcyzng8s+K2fTU6wyz06kwK5E9DhvLOYh/z6V2fS2emY UO3sBEvCRal6oTL3uRkqm8vt9VgsXLK/ytMO714hSTZt5+RnN7wpNVIs+Z6gPjRR qMohMNfj+fa11ZWY2fDf5KWsvD95Y3ULItTfXBcY2PBoicde0fIAK3d7XrAv4zDs gkVOHOZhCTbsOznmlGNkqyH8qJ8Zh3ybyU0C6pui9HALwBSeCpkQ9RGqOx0UZh8G S+zaZCtGuK7zEfyV2XYR6/4lU5Ffj0BDtzUPvwuva+40ESVzjAPjcqcfY5oth5eN 5hI6exw5ABKym9PU7REk0cooIniZYbC79juPyvrbMxhdZ6b/z0aKWf9DyszTXZgA W2bgh458IlzMx8r1ssYx6pVm4GWBQvDslegpBbKKt5Ft4JJkQ40= =S0b2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+--