best overall upgrade from 8.x?

[Andrew Berg]

On 2014.11.15 06:53, Adrian Wontroba wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 12:44:33PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
>> On 11/15/14 05:48, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> > I'd wait a month or so and, if no problems that might impact you pop up,
>> > I'd go with 10.1
>> Uh... is direct upgrade (using sources) possible from 8.4 to 10.1?
>> No need to step through 9.x?
> 
> Even the move from 9.2 (a near year old 9/stable) to 10.1 (stable/10 as
> of about 3 weeks ago) is slightly problematic.
> 
> Following the normal upgrade procedure of installkernel and then
> rebooting with the userland untouched runs into a problem whereby
> rc.conf falls apart with a shower of eval errors, no networking, ...
> 
> I do not know the cause.
> 
> Fortunately the quick and dirty upgrade approach works for this case.
> I did not expect it to (8-)
> 
> cd /usr/src
> mergemaster -p
> make installkernel
> make installworld
> mergemaster
> shutdown -r now
> 
Are you sure you followed the updating instructions exactly? That page of the
handbook does change from time to time and doing mergemaster before installing
world and kernel is certainly *not* correct. I highly recommend not memorizing
the instructions, and to follow a current version of the handbook whenever
updating.

AFAICT, updating from source should *always* work perfectly (as long as the
system is working enough to actually compile and install the new files).