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Subject: Re: 4.11 to RELENG_6
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In message: <200508081249.j78CnZOF021085@lurza.secnetix.de>
            Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> writes:
: Bj=F6rn K=F6nig <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
:  > Randy Bush wrote:
:  > > any peculiarities/clues for upgrading an antique from 4.11 to
:  > > RELENG_6 beyond the "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to =

:  > > current" in UPDATING?
:  > =

:  > I guess not. From the release notes of 6.0-BETA2:
:  > =

:  > "Source upgrades to FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT are only supported from Fr=
eeBSD =

:  > 5.3-RELEASE or later. Users of older systems [...]
: =

: Unfortunately, that statement is ambiguous:  FreeBSD 4.11
: (Jan. 2005) is _not_ older than 5.3 (Nov. 2004).  However,
: I guess that's not what the release notes really mean.

Older here means 'numerically smaller' not 'released earlier'.

Warner