From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 16 17:43:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434F71065673 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:43:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@citylink.dinoex.sub.org) Received: from uucp.dinoex.sub.de (uucp.dinoex.sub.de [194.45.71.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97F498FC19 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:43:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@citylink.dinoex.sub.org) Received: from uucp.dinoex.sub.de (uucp@uucp.dinoex.sub.de [194.45.71.2] (may be forged)) by uucp.dinoex.sub.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n3GHD9Bk067068 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:13:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news@citylink.dinoex.sub.org) X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: Received: from citylink.dinoex.sub.org (uucp@localhost) by uucp.dinoex.sub.de (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) with UUCP id n3GHD97T067067 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:13:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news@citylink.dinoex.sub.org) Received: from gate.oper.dinoex.org (gate-e [192.168.98.2]) by citylink.dinoex.sub.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n3GGZE4X068940 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:35:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news@gate.oper.dinoex.org) Received: from gate.oper.dinoex.org (gate-e [192.168.98.2]) by gate.oper.dinoex.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n3GGY3mb068740 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:34:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news@gate.oper.dinoex.org) Received: (from news@localhost) by gate.oper.dinoex.org (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id n3GGY3kt068739 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:34:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news) From: pmc@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:05:29 GMT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <200803261404.00508.fjwcash@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: dread of the bookshelf X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Milter: Spamilter (Reciever: uucp.dinoex.sub.de; Sender-ip: 194.45.71.2; Sender-helo: uucp.dinoex.sub.de; ) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (uucp.dinoex.sub.de [194.45.71.2]); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:13:10 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Rel 7 works better (was: "s/stable/broken/g") X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:43:53 -0000 Hi folks, hi Freddy, sorry, missed Your note last year this time. aka Freddie Cash schrieb mit Datum Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:04:00 -0700 in m2n.fbsd.stable: |On March 22, 2008 01:01 pm Peter Much wrote: |> Both of them were running Release 5.5, and they were doing all that |> is needed, and I was perfectly happy with this. |> [...] |> So I upgraded the first computer to Release 6.3. The outcome was | |A safer (recommended?) upgrade process when crossing major versions (ie |5.x to 6.x) is to upgrade to the latest release of the "old" version, |then to the .0 release of the "new" version, then to the latest release |of the "new" version. | |So from 5.x to 5.5, then from 5.5 to 6.0, then from 6.0 to 6.3. | |The devs take great pains to make the transition from "latest X.x to Y.0" |simple and mostly fool-proof, and the transition from "Y.x to Y.z" simple |and mostly fool-proof. But there are no guarantees when going from X.x |to Y.z. Maybe its good idea to replay Your message just now, as it seems good advice. I'm just strolling by to tell that I went from 6.3 to 7.2 just now with my testmachine, and this time it was a really good experience so far. I have now only one strangeness, which I think not worth a bug report, but I would invite You to think about what that can be. I post a separate note with better subject for that. And yes, I did ignore the good advice again, but 7.2 isn't officially out for release yet, so there are no safety belts anyway. rgds, PMc