4.11 to RELENG_6

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <200508081249.j78CnZOF021085 at lurza.secnetix.de>
            Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> writes:
: Björn König <bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
:  > Randy Bush wrote:
:  > > any peculiarities/clues for upgrading an antique from 4.11 to
:  > > RELENG_6 beyond the "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to 
:  > > current" in UPDATING?
:  > 
:  > I guess not. From the release notes of 6.0-BETA2:
:  > 
:  > "Source upgrades to FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT are only supported from FreeBSD 
:  > 5.3-RELEASE or later. Users of older systems [...]
: 
: Unfortunately, that statement is ambiguous:  FreeBSD 4.11
: (Jan. 2005) is _not_ older than 5.3 (Nov. 2004).  However,
: I guess that's not what the release notes really mean.

Older here means 'numerically smaller' not 'released earlier'.

Warner