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Date:      Sat, 6 Jul 2002 01:40:28 -0400
From:      Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: source upgrade from 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 to 4.6-stable
Message-ID:  <20020706054028.GE3321@laptop.lambertfam.org>
In-Reply-To: <E17Qa4p-000Aa4-00@smtp.targetnet.com>
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On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 04:53:15PM -0400, Tim Strike wrote:
> I have several older servers in the lab (4.0-release, 4.1-stable,
> 4.2-stable, 4.3-beta) that I'm going to upgrade to 4.6-release and
> 4.6-stable.  Has anyone done a similar source upgrade and encountered
> any problems?  

I have done several such servers recently, have not had any problems.

> Any wisdom to share?  

Read /usr/src/UPDATING.  Pay particular attention to the mergemaster
parts.

> I think the 4.2/4.3 upgrades should be fairly straight forward, but
> the 4.0/4.1 upgrades may be more work given how comparably old those
> releases are.

The older they are, the more work you have to do with mergemaster.
Just be careful and you will be ok.  

Some of the older boxes took me a half hour for the mergemaster
process just because I didn't originally set the machines up and
could not remember if the diffs were showing me original states or local
modifications.

-- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert@lambertfam.org      

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