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Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:22:09 +1200
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: Christopher Meiklejohn <cmeiklejohn@conversent.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.X from 3.X
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In-Reply-To: <KLEFJACFAJFCKFHDDADGCENEAOAB.cmeiklejohn@conversent.com>; from cmeiklejohn@conversent.com on Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:11:50PM -0400
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On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:11:50PM -0400, Christopher Meiklejohn wrote:
> I have been researching on the web and I am wondering if just CVSup'ing the
> code is the best way to
> do an upgrade from 3.1-RELEASE to 4.5-RELEASE-p4.
> 
> I read somewhere on google groups that someone reccommended doing a
> 3.1-RELEASE to 3.5-RELEASE and
> then going to 4.0 and then to 4.5 or 4.1 to 4.5 but I would like some other
> opinions.

My personal choice when upgrading versions involving major numbers is:

    1. back up my data
    2. binary upgrade
    3. cvsup to latest on the branch.

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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