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Subject: Re: 9.3 to 11.1 upgrade
To: Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs>, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>
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From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
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Zoran Kolic wrote on 2017/06/20 17:12:
>> Generally (and previously) the advice is to go via the next major version so
>> you should go:
>>
>> 9.3 -> 10.x -> 11.x not 9.3 -> 11.x
>
> Exactelly what I want to avoid.
> People successfuly upgraded, without branch 10.

In the past I did 8.4 to 10.3, but not by freebsd-update. We are using 
make installkernel + make installworld method. 9.3 to 11.1 can work 
similarly.

Miroslav Lachman