Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:51:36 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: upgrade path from 5.5 Message-ID: <44myikovpj.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <fb6605670809061026h2e7f0019sda24d4d1541adb69@mail.gmail.com> (Michael P. Soulier's message of "Sat\, 6 Sep 2008 13\:26\:04 -0400") References: <fb6605670809061026h2e7f0019sda24d4d1541adb69@mail.gmail.com>
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"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> writes: > So if some ports aren't supported on 5.5, I'd better get my aging > gateway upgraded. > > This begs the question of the correct path. I'm tempted to do a fresh > install of 7.0 and then restore, but mergemaster does a better job of > making sure the config files are both updated, and that nothing is > lost. > > Would the correct path be 5.5 -> 6.3 -> 7.0? That should be fine. RELENG_6 instead of 6.3 would also work, and so on... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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