Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:20:09 +0400 From: Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading from 5-Stable to 6-Stable via source Message-ID: <20060413062009.GB73035@sysadm.stc> In-Reply-To: <ded8d7170604122020g7d2ef454y3f49713f52c2010b@mail.gmail.com> References: <ded8d7170604122020g7d2ef454y3f49713f52c2010b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:20:43AM +0800, FreeBSD MailingLists wrote: > I have a bunch of production servers running 5-Stable branch and I was > considering upgrading to 6-Stable. > I have never upgraded across major version changes via source. > Is this a bad idea? > what pitfalls should i be aware of before starting? 1) For example custom modules like nvidia.ko. I recommend you just move all modules out of /boot/modules 2) Also there may be some problems with ports (shared libraries etc.) I had upgraded my workstation from 5-STABLE to 6-STABLE, and it worked. But later I got another disk, and I had decided to do clean install.
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