vinum to gvinum help

[Mark Linimon]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:15:24PM -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote:
> this is a production server that can at best stand an hour or so of
> downtime.

IMHO there are no 5.2.1 upgrade options that can be accomplish in even
a small number of hours.  The kernel libraries were all updated for 5.3;
and hundreds, if not more, ports were updated.  Since the 5.3 release,
there have been thousands, if not tens of thousands, of commits to the
ports tree, many of which make major infrastructural changes.

Either going to 5.5 or 6.1 at this point should (also IMHO) be a complete
reinstall on a staging system, with some tough testing there to show that
the upgrade will work for your applications.

Otherwise I think you're asking for some serious grief here.

mcl