Upgrading a FreeBSD 7.1 server

[Adam Vande More]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2 at milibyte.co.uk>
wrote:

> On Thursday 15 Jan 2015 11:21:36 Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to upgrade a FreeBSD 7.1 server, perhaps a step up
> > process to 8.4 first? We have a virtual server that we prefer not to
> > reinstall all packages.
>
> Packages are not compatible between major revision levels of the OS
>

Actually they largely are assuming the compat shims are installed.  pkgs
which include kernel mods like virtualbox aren't so much.  Also pkg_ ->
pkgng can be a little rough too.

-- 
Adam