Doug Barton wrote me on Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:41:45PM -0700 > Mars G. Miro wrote: > > > For the record, I've successfully updated a 5.4X to 6.1R w/o a hitch. > > I don't think you need to go to 5-stable if you want 6.X. Most apps > > will even still work and dont need to be recompiled. > > As happy as I am to hear that, if you'd read the section in UPDATING that I > was referring to, you'd have seen: > > When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally > best to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch > first, then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested > upgrade path, and has the highest probability of being successful. > Please try this approach before reporting problems with a major > version upgrade. > > Which clearly applies to the situation at hand. > Please move this conversation to freebsd-stable. >
Thanks. I cvsuped my source tree to RELENG_5. Build completed without errors. Thanks for your answers. -- AIM-UANIC +-----[ FreeBSD ]-----+ Alexander Mogilny | The Power to Serve! | <> [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------+ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
