-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 08/03/2008, Adam J Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The-IRC Hosting Administration Team wrote: >> > There is nothing wrong with obtaining the source code of 7.X and doing a >> > full recompile to upgrade your version sanely. >> >> >> Ah, really? Good news. I heard somewhere there were problems upgrading >> like that across a major version boundary. Or was it to a BETA? That >> might have been it. > > AFIK, that was 4.x -> 5/6 > OR > Ports, which are bound to be a problem across > major versions.* > Also, 8.x has a recent change which prevents > easy upgrading from early versions of 5/6(/7?). > > In any case, I had no problems upgrading to 7 via > normal methods as outlined in /usr/src/UPDATING > for two machines running 6.x
Well, I'm going to give this a try on a machine today. Thanks for all the input everyone. > > > > * literally everything explodes and your fish dies. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH1WsKQ0lr+ZVKSBgRAmuvAKCRZRx9+L0XUHGS5jzkthuwv09d8QCggBo3 xmSEd4j08pL/Y/PzcRfaVcU= =+S0d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"