On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:01:40AM -0500, Robin Blanchard wrote: > I just inherited a remote 4.8 box...Having not used RELENG_4 in eons, > just wanted to check if it's safe to "live upgrade" (make > installworld/kernel ; mergemaster) directly to 4.11 (world/kernel > already built; waiting to install). /usr/src/UPDATING doesn't seem to > indicate this is out of the question.
It would be best for you to just schedule a time to update the box entirely to RELENG_7, or at least RELENG_6. This may take less time and induce less pain than any oddities which might appear from a 4.8->4.11 upgrade. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
