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

[Brad Knowles]

At 9:42 PM +0200 2005-09-21, Brad Knowles wrote:

>  	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.

	Okay, well I've completed this part of the processing, going from 
4.11-R to releng_5_4, and everything seems to be okay.  I now need to 
make a custom kernel and to do a portupgrade, but unless something 
goes horribly wrong it would appear that this process was relatively 
painless.


	However, it would be nice if mergemaster could be made to 
automatically accept changes that occur only in the comments of the 
files it is trying to merge.  That way, many fewer "fluff" changes 
would be presented during the merge process, and people would be left 
with needing to confirm changes regarding only actual functional code.

	Anyway, thanks again everyone!

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