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Date:      Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:52:57 +0200
From:      sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr.  Preprocessor])
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: best path from 4.3 to 4.5?
Message-ID:  <y9lvgb2wm86.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10204021956010.39460-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> (Annelise Anderson's message of "Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:59:36 -0800 (PST)")
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10204021956010.39460-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>

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>>>>> "AA" == Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> writes:


AA> On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Fernan Aguero wrote:
>> I'm planning an upgrade from 4.3 (actually RELENG_4_3) to 4.5.
>> 
>> I have the 4.5-install CD, though I've never made an upgrade using
>> /stand/sysinstall.
>> So my plan would be to cvsup and synchronize my sources and then
>> remake the world and kernel.
>> 
>> Now, is there any impediment in going directly from 4.3 to RELENG_4_5
>> or should I do RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE (or worse yet, 4.4) first and then
>> go to RELENG_4_5? 
>> 
AA> I went from a 4.0-STABLE to 4.5-STABLE without any problems except
AA> forgetting to delete the symbolic links from softupdates (which are
AA> no longer needed) before I cvsupped.  I think you can go pretty much
AA> anywhere along the 4 branch without trouble if you follow the
AA> instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING.  You might want to install the
AA> new make.conf after you cvsup and edit it, but other than that, leave
AA> upgrading of /etc until after installworld (then you can do it with
AA> mergemaster).

login now has pam session support, which is not mentioned in
UPDATING.  If you have a custom pam.conf without session entries for
login, you might get borked.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla

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