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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
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On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:26:22PM +0100, RW wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:12:48 -0400
> Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:54:52PM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > hello...
> > > 
> > > how painful is to upgrade srcs from 6 to 6.2? all backup and stuff?
> > 
> > Not very painful, though I would definitely recommend a backup.
> > Even though the upgrade process is quite reliable, it is easy to
> > make a mistake or change your mind about something in the middle
> > and so you might want your old files.
> 
> Personally I just backup "/etc", which contains the configuration for
> the base system. It's possible to mess-up these file within
> mergemaster, and it would be a pain to recreate them. Everything else
> is reinstallable, or user data, and the threat to the latter
> isn't much greater than when upgrading ports.

Your choice.   I would back up the user data too, but...

////jerry

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