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Chris Knight wrote:
> 
> I've found the following sequence to be optimal from going from
> pre-dirpref -current to post-dirpref -current and 4-stable to -current:
> 
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
> make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
> make installworld
> mergemaster
> <reboot to single user>
> fsck all partitions, answering yes to all prompts
> tunefs -A -s <n> all partitions, where N > 0

This is not optimal because userland may depend on a new kernel, so
things may go awry during that installworld step.

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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dcs@freebsd.org
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	all your kernels arpanic: blockable sleep lock (sleep mutex) Giant @
../../kern/kern_sig.c:153

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