Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:28:50 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: When 5.5-stable? Message-ID: <444DA582.5080308@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060425042014.GA26867@thought.org> References: <20060424222019.GA24086@thought.org> <20060424223139.GC20219@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060425042014.GA26867@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote: > PS: Any big gotchas in goingfrom 5.5 -> 6.1??? Kris? > Anybody?? -g I haven't upgraded any systems from 5.5 to 6.1, but going from 5.4 to 6.0 there wasn't anything major. The three points which were non-trivial are 1. Addition of _dhcp user and group, 2. ABI differences mean that everything installed from the ports tree should be rebuilt, and 3. Portupgrade gets confused due to database format changes, do you should run `portupgrade -fR portupgrade` before portupgrading anything else. More details: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-5.4-to-6.0/ Colin Percival
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