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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:36:35 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Robin Blanchard <robin.blanchard@itos.uga.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 4.8 -> 4.11 in-place upgrade ?
Message-ID:  <20080130143635.GA53922@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <1C28E42139C61D4BB4F418A19EAA2E3507B1C4@MAIL.itos.uga.edu>
References:  <1C28E42139C61D4BB4F418A19EAA2E3507B1C4@MAIL.itos.uga.edu>

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:01:40AM -0500, Robin Blanchard wrote:
> 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.

It would be best for you to just schedule a time to update the box
entirely to RELENG_7, or at least RELENG_6.  This may take less time and
induce less pain than any oddities which might appear from a 4.8->4.11
upgrade.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                           http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                      Mountain View, CA, USA |
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