best overall upgrade from 8.x?

[Andrew Berg]

On 2014.11.15 09:22, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Andrew Berg <aberg010 at my.hennepintech.edu
> <mailto:aberg010 at my.hennepintech.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Are you sure you followed the updating instructions exactly? That page of the
>     handbook does change from time to time and doing mergemaster before installing
>     world and kernel is certainly *not* correct.
> 
> 
> A mergemaster -p should be run prior to installing new kernel. 
The handbook says otherwise.

install kernel
...
mergemaster -p
install world
mergemaster -iF
...

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html