Re: 4.5-> 5.2 upgrade path issues

From: Bill Fumerola <billf_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:45:30 -0800
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:06:11AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:36:06PM -0800, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:21:29AM +1030, Benjamin Close wrote:
> > > 	Found an old box running FreeBSD 4.5 quite happily on our network.
> > > Due to security issues (now I know the box exists), I've asked the admin
> > > to update to 4.9 or Freebsd 5.2. He tried upgrading to FreeBSD 5.2 however
> > > the build world failed with:
> > 
> > 4.X-ANYTHINGBUTSTABLE -> 5.X-ANYTHING is not a supported upgrade path.
> > 
> Yes it is supported.

ok, "rarely works". whichever it is, upgrading to -stable first before
upgrading to -current has always been beneficial to me.

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- bill fumerola / fumerola_at_yahoo-inc.com / billf_at_FreeBSD.org
Received on Mon Dec 22 2003 - 15:45:31 UTC

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