cvsup to 7.0 from 5.5?

[Chris Pratt]

On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:06 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote:

> On 10/22/08, Chris Pratt <eagletree at hughes.net> wrote:
>>
>> How risky is it to jump directly to 7.0 on a 5.5 system?
>> Upgrade would be by cvsup. I expect mergemaster
>> issues anyway but this system is relatively vanilla in
>> it's configuration. It's duty is just rsyncing other servers.
>> The kernel is GENERIC minus drivers plus ipfw and there are
>> no kldloads. Can this jump be made? I was hoping to avoid
>> having to make two major release jumps by doing only one.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
> Not really a bed of roses.
> Its a thorny road. You will stumble with packages then gcc version  
> then
> make.conf then cvsup itself.
>
> Cannot really remember exact thorny issues but I can tell that it  
> is not
> straight path. Rather Install 7.0 directly then migrate the data.
>
Thanks for the time to respond. That was enough for me. I'm
half-way to a 6.3 installation, then will take it to 7.0. It's
surprising that I could find no specifics of the issues, only
references that it wasn't a good idea.


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