Re: upgrade from 7-stable to 8-stable

2012-06-06 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Brian W. wrote: > It is time to do the above for me. I have done several upgrades within the > same major version but have not done a version hop yet. Aside from extra > paranoia about backups and the need to rebuild all ports, are there other > gotchas to watch ou

upgrade from 7-stable to 8-stable

2012-06-06 Thread Brian W.
It is time to do the above for me. I have done several upgrades within the same major version but have not done a version hop yet. Aside from extra paranoia about backups and the need to rebuild all ports, are there other gotchas to watch out for? I am going to try it on a test VM system first. Br