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Date:      Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:53:44 +0100 (CET)
From:      "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        hal <hal@cc.usu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrade 5.4 to 6.0
Message-ID:  <20060222144705.C66240@www.pukruppa.net>
In-Reply-To: <BC6F7FFC-CDEE-4CFA-A62F-046C9A8BF386@cc.usu.edu>
References:  <BC6F7FFC-CDEE-4CFA-A62F-046C9A8BF386@cc.usu.edu>

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On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, hal wrote:

> Is there any reason why I should not upgrade a 5.4
> system to 6.0 as opposed to doing a clean install?
Have a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING .
You might find out you have to rebuild about all of your ports, 
which can be quite tedious - if you have many of them installed 
on an old slow machine.
On the other hand: doing an upgrade from source might be a good 
exercise.

Cheers,

Uli.

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