Upgrading to 7 from 6.3

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> writes:
>
>  > B. Cook wrote:
>  >> Hello All,
>  >>
>  >> I was going to try and update a box from 6.3 to 7 via buildworld all
>  >> 32 bit, nothing 64.
>  >>
>  >> Assuming it should be done like this:
>  >>
>  >> make buildworld
>  >> make buildkernel
>  >> mergemaster -p
>  >> make installkernel
>  >> (reboot)
>  >> (startup on 7 kernel)
>  >> make installworld
>  >> mergemaster (do full mergemaster)
>  >> make installworld
>  >> (reboot)
>  >>
>  >> (make sure all is working in 7 then do it all again; just to be sure)
>  >> make buildworld
>  >> make buildkernel
>  >> make installkernel
>  >> make installworld
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> Sound about right? or too redundant?
>  >>
>  >> Thanks in advance.
>  >
>  > The doing it all again part might bring some very slight performance
>  > improvements due to the compiler change.
>
>  It *shouldn't* make any difference; buildworld bootstraps its own
>  compiler as one of the first things it does.
>
>  None of the steps really need to be done more than once.  The
>  redundancy as described isn't harmful, either.
>  _______________________________________________

You also have to recompile all your ports due to a major change in how
the ports work.

portupgrade -f -a