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Date:      Tue, 18 Dec 2018 22:50:00 -0800
From:      Brian Neal <brian@aceshardware.com>
To:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Upgrading 11.2 -> 12.0 on EC2

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Hello,

I’m looking for advice on doing a release upgrade of a running instance.  It looks like the normal procedure using freebsd-update requires a reboot between invocations of the install command, but after the first reboot, most of the userland is non-functional, including most importantly sshd. Is it safe to run the install commands back to back without rebooting?  Or is the only safe procedure to build a new instance from scratch for each release?

Cheers,

-Brian