5 to 6

[LI Xin]

Randy Bush wrote:
> do folk actually successfully upgrade
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct  1 18:41:24 GMT 2006     root at psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG  i386
> 
> to RELENG_6  *safely* on a many-user production system using the
> instructions in UPDATING?

I have did several (50+) updates from 5.4-RELEASE to a custom build of
6.1-RELEASE through a similar way that Colin has posted on his
website[1].  Basically it's fairly safe to upgrade 5.4-R to 6.1-R by
either src/ update (src/UPDATING) or binary update way.

Note that if you want a "clean" system then you will want to do "make
delete-old" and "make delete-old-libs", you are advised to install
compat5x before removing the libraries.

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!

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