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:
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:43:23AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
[... suggestions and advise upgrading 5.5 to 88^H ...]
> perhaps the section labeled "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to
> current" should be edited or removed from /usr/src/UPDATING. :)
That's something I found curious as well. ;-)
> I'd suggest either removing all ports, then going through the 5.5 ->
> 6.0 -> 7.0 -> 8.0 and be sure to run the mergemaster, make delete-old,
> make delete-old-libs at each stage and finally install the ports you
> need or back up your data (not the config files)
no thanks. too much of a mess,
Johan Hendriks 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?
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 t
>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 tak
