Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:08:16 -0700 From: Chris Pratt <eagletree@hughes.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvsup to 7.0 from 5.5? Message-ID: <CB12CC06-D0E7-4F34-9C07-3183D6EB647D@hughes.net> In-Reply-To: <da9e9eb60810220106q18cb146ehd66fe713f961b442@mail.gmail.com> References: <FC605209-0405-4E1E-93CC-522BBD5351E7@hughes.net> <da9e9eb60810220106q18cb146ehd66fe713f961b442@mail.gmail.com>
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On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:06 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: > 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. > Thanks for the time to respond. That was enough for me. I'm half-way to a 6.3 installation, then will take it to 7.0. It's surprising that I could find no specifics of the issues, only references that it wasn't a good idea. > > -- > Aftab Jahan Subedar > CEO/Software Engineer > Subedar Technologies Ltd > Subedar Baag Bibir Bagicha #1 > North Jatra Bari > Dhaka 1204 > Bangladesh > 88027554546 > 8801552635208 > 8801191336608 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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