Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:39:20 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.9 CVS vs. binary? Message-ID: <20030925083920.GC12631@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3F72A7AF.9030905@ant.uni-bremen.de> References: <20030923172654.GA4981@silvertree.org> <20030923214255.GC76632@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <3F71840B.5000102@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20030924123126.GA51968@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <3F72A7AF.9030905@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:30:39AM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> While we're at it: Will it be possible to upgrade from 4.9 to 5.x via CSV?
It's possible right now, but be warned that upgrading over a major
version bump is a significantly harder proposition than upgrading
within, say, 4.x. For many users it's going to be a whole lot less
grief just to do a reinstall of 5.x on top of their 4.x system.
Cheers,
Matthew
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