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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:36:06PM -0800, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:21:29AM +1030, Benjamin Close wrote:
> > 	Found an old box running FreeBSD 4.5 quite happily on our network.
> > Due to security issues (now I know the box exists), I've asked the admin
> > to update to 4.9 or Freebsd 5.2. He tried upgrading to FreeBSD 5.2 howe=
ver
> > the build world failed with:
>=20
> 4.X-ANYTHINGBUTSTABLE -> 5.X-ANYTHING is not a supported upgrade path.
>=20
Yes it is supported.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru@FreeBSD.org

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