freebsd stable - Nov 2009 - 5.5-STABLE to 88.0-RELEASE

can one go from 5.5 to 8.0 using the normal hammer, or is it
multi-stage, and i should just blow it away and go from install?

randy

>can one go from 5.5 to 8.0 using the normal hammer, or is it
>multi-stage, and i should just blow it away and go from install?
>randy
It is do able, but you need to rebuild all ports.
And to go from 5.5 to 8 it is adviced to go trough all major version,
like 6 and 7 and then go to 8.

So my take is, backup all your data, and config files and do a
reinstall.
This way you make sure there are no un needed libs and old stuff laying
around which can clobber your system.

Regards,
Johan Hendriks

Randy Bush wrote:
 > can one go from 5.5 to 8.0 using the normal hammer, or is it
 > multi-stage, and i should just blow it away and go from install?

This is a very late reply, but just for the archives ...

You can do the update in two steps.
Please see this entry in /usr/src/UPDATING:

20080123:
        To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running
        FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE.  Upgrading to -current
        from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems.

So, basically you can go from 5.5 to 7.2 (or 7-stable),
and then to 8.0 (or 8-stable).

Best regards
   Oliver

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