Updating from 11.3-stable to 12.1-stable?

[Janos Dohanics]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:27:54 -0500
Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote:

> Well, here are the steps that I took to upgrade my 11.3-STABLE system
> to 12.1-STABLE. May not be the best/most efficient but they worked
> for me and I thought someone else may benefit from them.
> 
> 1)  Make a backup of the current system
> 2)  Delete everything in /usr/src, making certin to remove the files
> and directories that start with a dot (".").
> 3)  Delete everything in /usr/obj.
> 4)  Download (via svn) the new FreeBSD release /usr/src to be updated
> to.
> 5)  Build the new world from the source.
> 6)  Build the new kernel from the source.
> 7)  Run "mergemaster -Fp" to update files that may be needing update
> prior to doing the installworld.
> 8)  Run "make installworld" in /usr/src.
> 9)  Run "make installkernel" in /usr/src.
> 10) [...]

Steps 8) and 9) appear to be in the wrong order:

According to
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/makeworld.html the
correct order is:

# make buildworld
# make buildkernel
# make installkernel
# shutdown -r now
# make installworld

-- 
Janos Dohanics