From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 30 14:01:46 2008 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 19B2916A418 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:01:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin.blanchard@itos.uga.edu) Received: from MAIL.itos.uga.edu (outgoing.itos.uga.edu [128.192.0.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958F813C4F7 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:01:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin.blanchard@itos.uga.edu) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:01:40 -0500 Message-ID: <1C28E42139C61D4BB4F418A19EAA2E3507B1C4@MAIL.itos.uga.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: 4.8 -> 4.11 in-place upgrade ? Thread-Index: AchjSKNwll5FotdeTimUF1vBTIJ2Ig== From: "Robin Blanchard" To: "FreeBSD Stable" Subject: 4.8 -> 4.11 in-place upgrade ? 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: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:01:46 -0000 I just inherited a remote 4.8 box...Having not used RELENG_4 in eons, just wanted to check if it's safe to "live upgrade" (make installworld/kernel ; mergemaster) directly to 4.11 (world/kernel already built; waiting to install). /usr/src/UPDATING doesn't seem to indicate this is out of the question. Tia ---------------------------------------- Robin P. Blanchard Systems Administrator Information Technology Outreach Services Carl Vinson Institute of Government The University of Georgia fon 706.542.6295 // fax 706.542.6535 ----------------------------------------