Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:08:26 -0500 From: Jay Deiman <jay@splitstreams.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0 Message-ID: <47D56B0A.1070209@splitstreams.com> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0803081308s60a7a9fh6e4254b222a94821@mail.gmail.com> References: <47C8AB02.3000305@splitstreams.com> <47D2ED98.5090406@crackmonkey.us> <08f801c88158$913c9170$b3b5b450$@Org> <47D2F6CC.3080800@crackmonkey.us> <d7195cff0803081308s60a7a9fh6e4254b222a94821@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 08/03/2008, Adam J Richardson <fatman@crackmonkey.us> wrote: >> The-IRC Hosting Administration Team wrote: >> > There is nothing wrong with obtaining the source code of 7.X and doing a >> > full recompile to upgrade your version sanely. >> >> >> Ah, really? Good news. I heard somewhere there were problems upgrading >> like that across a major version boundary. Or was it to a BETA? That >> might have been it. > > AFIK, that was 4.x -> 5/6 > OR > Ports, which are bound to be a problem across > major versions.* > Also, 8.x has a recent change which prevents > easy upgrading from early versions of 5/6(/7?). > > In any case, I had no problems upgrading to 7 via > normal methods as outlined in /usr/src/UPDATING > for two machines running 6.x Well, I'm going to give this a try on a machine today. Thanks for all the input everyone. > > > > * literally everything explodes and your fish dies. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH1WsKQ0lr+ZVKSBgRAmuvAKCRZRx9+L0XUHGS5jzkthuwv09d8QCggBo3 xmSEd4j08pL/Y/PzcRfaVcU= =+S0d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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