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Subject: Re: Vinum and upgrading from 5.1-RELEASE 
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Chris Hastie wrote:

> I tried to upgrade from 5.1-RELEASE to 5_RELENG last night and hit big
> problems with vinum. 5_RELENG in retrospect was an error I suspect, as
> what I really wanted was 5.4-RELEASE.

Since 5.3 you should probably use the geom-aware gvinum instead of vinum.

I think the manual says that both vinum and gvinum can be used for > 5.3 
but I've never actually got vinum to work on > 5.3.

/e