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Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
Subject: Re: trim src/UPDATING in RELENG_7?
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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
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