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Subject: Re: Upgrade 5.4 to 6.0
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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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