Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6 - Make world or binary install?

[Thierry Herbelot]

Le Tuesday 11 October 2005 08:51, Scott Long a écrit :

> Upgrading from 5.4 to 6.0 is very easy.  I did it last weekend on my
> firewall+mailserver with just the normal upgrade procedures.  The only
> gotcha that I can think of is the renamed serial ports.
>
> Scott

I had crashes with some KDE apps (akkregator or amarok, for example) after 
upgrading a 5.4 station via buildworld/buldkernel (+ portupgrade -fa), which 
disappeared after I installed a new 6.0 with a new set of packages.

	TfH

PS : I installed the "new", clean 6.0 and associated packages within a jail 
running from the hybrid 5.4/6.0. I could install and setup the new OS and 
packages without interrupting work on the currently installed 5.4/6.0 hybrid.