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Date:      Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:48:12 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
To:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkg(8)
Message-ID:  <22186.43196.374050.48765@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20160128160622.GB88527@zxy.spb.ru>
References:  <20160127223323.GG98557@FreeBSD.org> <183431.62409.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20160128131806.GB67200@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20160128160622.GB88527@zxy.spb.ru>

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<<On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:06:22 +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> said:

> What about upgrade strongly outdated system?
> For example 11.0 at time 18.0? I.e. packages for 11.0 don't available,
> pkg from 11.0 don't undertund package base from 18.0 and etc.

We've never supported this for source upgrades; I don't see any reason
to expect it to work for binary upgrades either.  At a minimum you
should expect to have to upgrade 11.0 -> latest 11.x -> latest 12.x ->
... -> latest 17.x -> 18.0.

-GAWollman



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