upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

[Evren Yurtesen]

Remko Lodder wrote:

> Brent Bailey wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd
>> systems that are pretty old. The customer is running a file server samba
>> also running apache running FBSD 4.2,  he wants to upgrade using cvsup &
>> the make buildworld procedure to upgrade to 5.x. Im very familier with 
>> the
>> make buildworld procedure however there have been significant changes
>> between 4.2 & 5.x  so is this something that can be done without many
>> problems ? Aside from reading throught the /usr/src/UPDATING file are
>> there things i should look out for being that the 2 versions are so
>> differrent.

I believe the only reason to upgrade to 5.x would be if you need a 
feature in 5.x versions which doesnt exist in 4.x versions. Otherwise it 
is best to use 4.x-stable.