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[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Patrick Okui <pokui at psg.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:03:16 +0300
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> On Thursday 19 October 2006 19:39, Randy Bush wrote:
> > do folk actually successfully upgrade
> >
> > # uname -a
> > FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct  1 18:41:24 GMT
> > 2006     root at psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG  i386
> >
> > to RELENG_6  *safely* on a many-user production system using the
> > instructions in UPDATING?
> 
> I have... mergemaster complains quite some.. but other than that yes.

I recommend cleaning out /etc for major upgrades on systems that don't
have the -U option on mergemaster. It can save a huge amount of time
that is totally wasted!

I delete rc.d/* isdn/* bluetooth/* defaults/* gnats/* mtree/* periodic/*
and security/* as well as most other stuff in /etc that I know I have
not modified and won't need for a single-user boot. But be VERY careful
about this!
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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