Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...

[Paul T. Root]

I went via cvsup and a source tree, straight to 5.4 stable
from 4.10 stable.

Brad Knowles wrote:
> Folks,
> 
>     I've seen the migration guide at 
> <http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/migration-guide.html>, and the 
> thread at 
> <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-September/018151.html>, 
> but I was wondering about the specific sequence of the upgrade process.
> 
>     In particular, I'm wondering if I should go from 
> RELENG_4_11_0_RELEASE direct to RELENG_5_4, or if I should instead go 
> first to RELENG_5_0_0_RELEASE then to RELENG_5_4?
> 
> 
>     I think the individual steps to follow and commands to execute 
> during the upgrade are clear enough.  But it's not obvious to me as to 
> which precise CVSup targets should be used to pull down the source that 
> would be compiled, etc....
> 

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