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Subject: Re: freebsd-update from 9.3 to 11.0
From: Florian Ermisch <florian.ermisch@alumni.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2016 22:59:01 +0200
To: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>,Doug Hardie <doug@mail.sermon-archive.info>
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Am 7. August 2016 08:37:45 MESZ, schrieb Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>:
> […]
> > I have a number of production systems on 9.3 that need to be
> > upgraded.  I can't go to 10.x as it won't boot on that hardware.
> > However, 11.0 does boot.  I can't afford the downtime to completely
> > rebuild them.
> 
> Uh, that sounds complicated.

Maybe it's worth the hassle to set up
a freebsd-update server which provides 
a 11.0 Kernel with a 10.x userland as
10.x-RELEASE? It's a hack, but only
needed for the upgrade…

Regards, Florian