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From: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
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Subject: Re: Upgrading from 4.x to 5.x ... possible?
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> Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is
> possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this undesirable?

I just upgraded a machine from 4.10 to 5.4-stable via cvsup / buildworld and
didn't run into any problems whatsoever.
/usr/src/UPDATING has a good guide for doing this migration.

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Matt Emmerton