Source level upgrade from 4.9 to CURRENT..

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Thomas Backman <serenity at exscape.org>wrote:

> On Sep 15, 2009, at 7:36 PM, Rom Albuquerque wrote:
>
>  Hi folks. Need help in doing the following, but first want to check
>> and see if it is feasible with the latest release, or if I'm just going to
>> be spinning my wheels on this one.
>>
>> The Objective.
>> ==============
>>
>> I have a FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE system which I want to upgrade to 7.X
>> from the source level. Had a bunch of problems installing 7.1-RELEASE from
>> the CD distribution I got from freebsdmall.com. Several problems that
>> could not mount the CD at the time of installation causing sysinstall
>> to halt. So, 4.9 is installed and working, is there a source level
>> backward compatibility issue between 7.x and anything older than 6.0 ?
>> In other words, upgrading from the sources with such an old
>> distribution is a doable task ?
>>
>>
>> Your response is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
> I can't say how many steps are needed, but more than one.
> From /usr/src/UPDATING:
>
> 20080123:
>    To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running
>    FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE.  Upgrading to -current
>    from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas


I read that as he can go straight to RELENG_7 without a stop, it's after
that is an issue.  Provided there's nothing else in /usr/src/UPDATING
anyways.


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Adam Vande More