Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:22:09 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Christopher Meiklejohn <cmeiklejohn@conversent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.X from 3.X Message-ID: <20020515092209.A43579@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <KLEFJACFAJFCKFHDDADGCENEAOAB.cmeiklejohn@conversent.com>; from cmeiklejohn@conversent.com on Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:11:50PM -0400 References: <KLEFJACFAJFCKFHDDADGCENEAOAB.cmeiklejohn@conversent.com>
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On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:11:50PM -0400, Christopher Meiklejohn wrote:
> I have been researching on the web and I am wondering if just CVSup'ing the
> code is the best way to
> do an upgrade from 3.1-RELEASE to 4.5-RELEASE-p4.
>
> I read somewhere on google groups that someone reccommended doing a
> 3.1-RELEASE to 3.5-RELEASE and
> then going to 4.0 and then to 4.5 or 4.1 to 4.5 but I would like some other
> opinions.
My personal choice when upgrading versions involving major numbers is:
1. back up my data
2. binary upgrade
3. cvsup to latest on the branch.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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