Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 14:25:51 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <doug@mail.sermon-archive.info> To: Florian Ermisch <florian.ermisch@alumni.tu-berlin.de> Cc: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update from 9.3 to 11.0 Message-ID: <43AA96F2-993B-4E4E-B052-C8AF8CF76C21@mail.sermon-archive.info> In-Reply-To: <8DD9F50C-B4D6-4283-8272-A73C3283E089@alumni.tu-berlin.de> References: <6CD628FE-DF3B-4AC7-8214-6E6382F6AAA7@mail.sermon-archive.info> <20160807063745.GV96200@home.opsec.eu> <8DD9F50C-B4D6-4283-8272-A73C3283E089@alumni.tu-berlin.de>
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> On 7 August 2016, at 13:59, Florian Ermisch = <florian.ermisch@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote: >=20 >=20 >=20 > Am 7. August 2016 08:37:45 MESZ, schrieb Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>: >> [=E2=80=A6] >>> 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. >>=20 >> Uh, that sounds complicated. >=20 > Maybe it's worth the hassle to set up > a freebsd-update server which provides=20 > a 11.0 Kernel with a 10.x userland as > 10.x-RELEASE? It's a hack, but only > needed for the upgrade=E2=80=A6 >=20 > Regards, Florian Comment #5 to https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D211398 = has a patch that gets you very close to the right place for 9.3. = However, that patch works and I am now able to upgrade to 11.0-BETA4. I = have one server almost completed. There are a couple of issues with = packages, but they are being worked out.
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