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Date:      Tue, 05 Nov 2002 01:36:32 +0000
From:      Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
To:        dlt@mebtel.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Transition guide for 5.0
Message-ID:  <3DC720A0.7010806@cream.org>
References:  <20021105005525.GA94856@mebtel.net>

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Derek Tattersall wrote:
> Since FreeBSD 5.0 will be on the stable branch (right?) when it's
> released toward the end of this month, is there or will there be a
> transition guide for moving from 4-Stable to 5-Stable?  Actually, is
> there even really anything to worry about?
> 
> Will there be a simple upgrade path (cvsup/buildworld etc) or will it
> be an install from scratch and rebuild your ports?

I don't think that FreeBSD 5 will become the stable branch quite as soon 
as the 5.0 release. It will take some time after that for it to be 
considered stable enough to be called -stable, if that makes sense :-)

You can rest assured that the upgrade path from 4.x to 5 will be well 
documented in the 5.x release. When upgrading systems, the file to read 
is src/sys/UPDATING. If you use cvsweb you should be able to find the 
-current UPDATING file which already contains documentation about how to 
upgrade.

Cheers.

Andrew.



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