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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:43:13 +0000
From:      Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net>
To:        paul van den bergen <pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrading 4.8 to 4.9 question....
Message-ID:  <20031120004312.GA585@lewiz.org>
In-Reply-To: <200311201127.59090.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au>
References:  <200311201113.29006.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> <20031120002418.GA16870@lewiz.org> <200311201127.59090.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au>

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On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote:
> if I upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9, will I also have to upgrade (by whatever
> method) the applications running on the box? I.e. those that are not
> part of the src tree?

On the whole... no.  But that doesn't mean you won't run into problems.
You can resolve those when you get there though ;)

> for that matter, am I likely to encounter any issues with
> configuration files?  /etc/... and /usr/local/etc/... ???

Try man mergemaster.

  Best wishes,

-lewiz.

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