It is safe to build ports for 7.0 from a 6.3 chroot?

[José García Juanino]

On 04/03/2008, Mel <fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2008 01:48:37 Bogdan Ćulibrk wrote:
>  >
>  > 0) Do I need to reinvent wheel?
>  >
>  >
>  > Joke off. Really, why would you try alternate way of upgrading, when
>  > there's straight way to do it?
>
>
> Minimize downtime of services provided by ports?
>
>  Jose: take a look at Tinderbox - it does exactly what you want to do: build
>  ports for OS release X on OS release Y, using chroot. If you're unsure about
>  your own method, because of OSVERSION or similar, do it using Tinderbox.

Thank you very much for your responses.
The aim is, as you comment, minimize downtime of services. Also, I
want to switch back to the 6.3 release in a fast way if I find some
problem running the new one. Therefore, I cannot erase the 6.3
release.

Best regards