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On 1/8/2015 1:21 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> I have no specific data about this specific case, but the advertised
> procedure for upgrading between major branches is to update to the tip of
> the starting branch before attempting the major version jump, i.e., update
> to the tip of stable/9 before attempting to go to stable/10 or head.

Actually, there seems to be a new caveat to this discussed in

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2015-January/081521.html

	---Mike



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