Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:06:31 +0600 From: "Aftab Jahan Subedar" <jahan@scientist.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup to 7.0 from 5.5? Message-ID: <da9e9eb60810220106q18cb146ehd66fe713f961b442@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <FC605209-0405-4E1E-93CC-522BBD5351E7@hughes.net> References: <FC605209-0405-4E1E-93CC-522BBD5351E7@hughes.net>
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On 10/22/08, Chris Pratt <eagletree@hughes.net> wrote: > > How risky is it to jump directly to 7.0 on a 5.5 system? > Upgrade would be by cvsup. I expect mergemaster > issues anyway but this system is relatively vanilla in > it's configuration. It's duty is just rsyncing other servers. > The kernel is GENERIC minus drivers plus ipfw and there are > no kldloads. Can this jump be made? I was hoping to avoid > having to make two major release jumps by doing only one. > > Thanks > Not really a bed of roses. Its a thorny road. You will stumble with packages then gcc version then make.conf then cvsup itself. Cannot really remember exact thorny issues but I can tell that it is not straight path. Rather Install 7.0 directly then migrate the data. -- Aftab Jahan Subedar CEO/Software Engineer Subedar Technologies Ltd Subedar Baag Bibir Bagicha #1 North Jatra Bari Dhaka 1204 Bangladesh 88027554546 8801552635208 8801191336608
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