upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

[Paul T. Root]

Oliver Fromme wrote:
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> Pete French <petefrench at ticketswitch.com> wrote:
>  > usually when I upgrade across major versions of BSD I wipe the whole
>  > machine and re--install from scratch. But I understand that the move
>  > to 6.0 from 5.4 is nowhere near such a big leap.
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>  > So I was wondering hether I could just do this from source without any
>  > ill effects, as if I was upgrading 5.4->5.5.
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> That's exactly what I did.  I installed a new machine from
> a 5.4-Release DVD-ROM, then updated to RELENG_5, and then
> went to RELENG_6 from there.  The only special thing I had
> to do was to manually rm -rf /usr/obj, otherwise the build-
> world broke.

Oh yeah, I did rm -r the object tree, I forgot about that. It
was kind of a reflex thing when it failed.


> Of course you should do take the usual precautions, i.e.
> have a reliable backup, read UPDATING, don't forget to run
> mergemaster etc.
> 
> Best regards
>    Oliver
> 

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