Upgrade Questions

[Matthew Seaman]

On 2017/01/10 14:06, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Can I update FreeBSD 9.3 -> 11.0 using source update?? Or that is too
> aggressive, so I need to do 9.3 -> 10.3, then 10.3 -> 11.0??

You will need an intermediate step via 10.3 -- there is a problem
compiling 11.0 on earlier than 10.3 release.

This is quite an unusual circumstance -- although the requirement is
that you should be able to upgrade to (X+1).0 from the last X.Y, most of
the time in the past you could upgrade from pretty much any FreeBSD to
the latest.

> I guess there is so much danger lurking in 9.3-STABLE -> 11.0-STABLE using
> source upgrade, but not 9.3-RELEASE -> 11.0-RELEASE using freebsd-update.

Even if you use freebsd-update, you will need to go via an intermediate
10.3-RELEASE step.  However, this is for different reasons -- there were
changes to freebsd-update itself, which are in 10.3 and are needed to
get to 11.0.

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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