Upgrading to 60 question.

[Lowell Gilbert]

Vizion <vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com> writes:

> I am currently running 5.3 and want to upgrade to 6.00.
> 
> Is there any reason that I should upgrade to 5.4 before upgrading to 6.00?

Not according to the Release Notes.  If you were running anything
earlier than 5.3, you would, but 5.3 should be fine to make the jump
directly. 

> I show below the output from dmesg.boot and from pkg_info from which you will 
> see that I have a large number of installed ports so it is no light task if I 
> need to upgrade all the ports - (everything is currently up to date)

The ports will continue to work, but you should update them when you
get a chance so that they link against the 6.0 libraries instead of
the old ones.