From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Nov 11 10:18:33 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 98F1A1133AC8 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 10:18:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D8C179790 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 10:18:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1541931513; x=1544523513; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=gL7EpynQQerC7Lk5URu6CtyK+Jelw13aIPU9S3PixoA=; b=ccNOmLTI2C51XMQ4t59r8pCw1hY1ZME1MaG/1Eqowp0KNqnSMQO7sSJHCQCcAOHZek20TOJMyhubIfplhPiBoySoJlQWdU8Pg/H0hNMz8vgqZuf2nUWyZNGuh+ET/KKs37PDp9wp8dvabjJhq9ittxAG6zO5mDcnH7VCP+oyI6k= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xOWYwMDAwMDIwMTE0OGMuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r3.h.in.socketlabs.com (r3.h.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.180.13]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sun, 11 Nov 2018 05:18:32 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r3.h.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sun, 11 Nov 2018 05:18:31 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.91 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1gLmp4-000N9M-2N; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 10:18:30 +0000 Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 10:18:29 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Robert Huff Cc: B J , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: upgrade 10.3 to 11.2? Message-Id: <20181111101829.6d12ac025b114af57d924fb1@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <23527.49008.281225.26595@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <278e9c07-ec53-546f-7d3e-5f3fef698cc4@dreamchaser.org> <23527.49008.281225.26595@jerusalem.litteratus.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 1D8C179790 X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.06 / 200.00]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mxbh.socketlabs.com]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.06)[-0.057,0]; FORGED_SENDER(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; IP_SCORE(-0.02)[country: US(-0.09)]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.99)[-0.985,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.99)[-0.989,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; FORGED_SENDER_VERP_SRS(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[198.176.0.142.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.15.0]; ENVFROM_VERP(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_CC(0.00)[gmail.com] X-Rspamd-Server: mx1.freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 10:18:33 -0000 On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:34:40 -0500 Robert Huff wrote: > It _can_ be done. > There is a large pile of conventional wisdom as to why - if > possible - one should re-install across major version. FreeBSD has always supported upgrading across a major version, even when that involved a change of binary format. It should be expected to work. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith