Updating from 11.3-stable to 12.1-stable?

[Janos Dohanics]

On Sat, 2 May 2020 07:22:33 +0200
Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> [...]
> > 
> > According to
> > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/makeworld.html the
> > correct order is:
> > 
> > # make buildworld
> > # make buildkernel
> > # make installkernel
> > # shutdown -r now
> > # make installworld
> 
> Interestingly, this chapter of the handbook does not mention
> going into single-user mode anymore, while /usr/src/Makefile
> (comment header) and /usr/src/UPDATING (near bottom) still do.
> Such a significant difference in documentation should deserve
> further investigation...

I seem to remember that previous versions of the online page advised
that following 'make installkernel' one should reboot into single user
mode, 'make installworld', and make a copy of /etc before running
mergemaster(8).

-- 
Janos Dohanics