4.11 to RELENG_6

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Björn König <bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>  > Randy Bush wrote:
>  > > any peculiarities/clues for upgrading an antique from 4.11 to
>  > > RELENG_6 beyond the "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to 
>  > > current" in UPDATING?
>  > 
>  > I guess not. From the release notes of 6.0-BETA2:
>  > 
>  > "Source upgrades to FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT are only supported from FreeBSD 
>  > 5.3-RELEASE or later. Users of older systems [...]
> 
> Unfortunately, that statement is ambiguous:  FreeBSD 4.11
> (Jan. 2005) is _not_ older than 5.3 (Nov. 2004).  However,
> I guess that's not what the release notes really mean.

Sorry.  :-(  The case of someone trying to upgrade from 4.X to 6.X
hadn't occurred to me when I wrote that (because, as noted, 4.X to 5.X
is non-trivial).

> For the mentioned update from 4.x to 6.x, I would go via
> a binary upgrade, which has probably fewer pitfalls and
> is finished a lot faster than a source upgrade.

I'd advise that as well.

Bruce.

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