From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Feb 15 01:19:08 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69B32F0E236 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 01:19:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:43:6f73:7461]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "gal.iecc.com", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EEF68788CE for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 01:19:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: (qmail 32926 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2018 01:19:07 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=iecc.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=809c.5a84e00b.k1802; bh=hEOyojoEIaJjCQ73V01A1uPbrbL1yM5FlpGCwhyPnvI=; b=K7O4Rm6b6T2j2X4Lj+oLVx4urJT19LTyJxhQOF1olsLQbNvQOWMSPnLun0FwfYe/CBt1kdop8udE8IMEZz8V1nWtyLpOzFT0UevIIIpLolNeNra/mahC14qSqc5KYsXoUP94EABxnbZ1kDu00QUn1wYVm91qBlaBQX4d0TTpAutjc1/wUA37fFqOWlb6D9hOLZk6Ht1lCV1pl+aGLB0pVqBINrP8L+E1LjDwyYbQr8B8EgGpGoSHARGiX/7KdXCt Received: from ary.qy ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) by imap.iecc.com ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) with ESMTP via TCP6; 15 Feb 2018 01:19:06 -0000 Received: by ary.qy (Postfix, from userid 501) id 6620E1B2DE28; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:19:07 -0500 (EST) Date: 14 Feb 2018 20:19:07 -0500 Message-Id: <20180215011907.6620E1B2DE28@ary.qy> From: "John Levine" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: merlyn@stonehenge.com Subject: Re: any problem going from 9.x (don't laugh) to 11 directly? In-Reply-To: <86lgfvi20e.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> Organization: Taughannock Networks X-Headerized: yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 01:19:08 -0000 In article <86lgfvi20e.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> you write: >I'm on 9.3, and intended to use freebsd-update. In that case I'd go to 10.4, poke at that long enough to make sure things work, then go to 11.1. You can probably eventually fix what breaks if you try to skip 10.x but that seems needless pain. The functional differences between 10.4 and 11.1 are not huge, and 10.4 is supported through the end of October so you can easily wait a month or more between the two updates. If you're feeling really lazy, wait until early October and hope that 11.2 is out by then so you can skip 11.1. R's, John