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From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Upgrading to higher major version directly or via small steps?
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On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:47 PM, c0re <nr1c0re@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
>
> I'm interested in 2 updates:
> - from 6.2 to 7.3
> and
> - from 6.2 to 8.1
>
> Can I update directly from 6.2 to 7.3? like set RELENG_7_3 in supfile and
> make csup. Or I should update to 6.4, then to 7.0, and then to 7.3?
>
> And same question about upgrading from 6.2 to 8.1 - can i csup directly to
> 8.1? If not - why is it so?
>
>
http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/



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