Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:24:48 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, randy@psg.com Subject: Re: 5.5-STABLE to 88.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <200912291524.nBTFOmRZ005808@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <m2y6lt3j32.wl%randy@psg.com>
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Randy Bush wrote:
> can one go from 5.5 to 8.0 using the normal hammer, or is it
> multi-stage, and i should just blow it away and go from install?
This is a very late reply, but just for the archives ...
You can do the update in two steps.
Please see this entry in /usr/src/UPDATING:
20080123:
To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running
FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE. Upgrading to -current
from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems.
So, basically you can go from 5.5 to 7.2 (or 7-stable),
and then to 8.0 (or 8-stable).
Best regards
Oliver
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