Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:51:46 +0930 From: Andrew D <andrewd@webzone.net.au> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> Subject: Re: trim src/UPDATING in RELENG_7? Message-ID: <487B36CA.2050102@webzone.net.au> In-Reply-To: <487B2D25.9080502@FreeBSD.org> References: <op.ud84tavm8527sy@guido.klop.ws> <487B2D25.9080502@FreeBSD.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > Ronald Klop wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The file src/UPDATING in RELENG_7 goes back until 2004 (the RELENG_5 >> branchpoint) and is now almost 1000 lines long. Is it an idea to trim >> this file a bit? >> >> And to update this sentence: 'To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to >> current'? >> And footnote [5] seems a bit dated also. 'if you last updated from >> current before 20020224 or from -stable before 20020408.' >> >> Or is upgrading from 5.x to 7 also supported? > > I think so, yes. > I've tried it on several test boxes and VMs and I couldn't get it too jump from 5.5 to 7.0. I had to go 5.5->6.3->7.0, not that it was much of a hassle. It came up with the same error every time. Though I don't have the logs of the error any more. Cheers Andrew > Kris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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