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Date:      Wed, 2 Nov 2005 15:13:28 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Chris Howells <howells@kde.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading 4.11-STABLE to 5.4-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20051102201328.GA99423@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200511022107.25718.howells@kde.org>
References:  <200511022107.25718.howells@kde.org>

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On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:07:25PM +0000, Chris Howells wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I want to upgrade my 4.11-STABLE server to 5.4-STABLE. I'm very used to u=
sing=20
> cvsup to upgrade between minor releases (IIRC the box was 4.9 or 4.10=20
> originally) but a jump between major versions is scaring me a bit :)
>=20
> Has anybody done this recently. Were there any major problems other than=
=20
> mentioned in UPDATING?

Worked smoothly for me.  You do need console access to boot to
single-user mode.  Don't forget to rebuild all your installed ports
afterwards too (portupgrade -fa or -faP).

Kris

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