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Subject: Re: Gotchas to Downgrade from 7.0-CURRENTto FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE
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eculp@bafirst.com wrote:
 > I've lost track a bit of the differences between current and
 > 6.1-prerelease.  I don't remember anything major that would cause
 > problems.  Does anyone know of a potential gotcha or have suggestions
 > the smooth the pathe or has done this since the freeze?

You'll want to wipe out all of the non-config files in /etc, use 
mergemaster -i to install a fresh /etc and import your saved configuration.

 > The machine that I am going to downgrade is my wife's and I don't really
 > want to recompile roughly 540 ports that are installed

There are API-incompatible differences between -CURRENT and RELENG_6, so 
you'll probably need to recompile all those ports anyway.