Upgrading 5.3 > 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic

[Andy Fawcett]

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 23:46, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:36:05PM -0700, secmgr wrote:
> > >Update to 5.4 before trying to update to 6.0.
> > >
> > >Kris
> >
> > So is there any supported direct 5.3->6.0 upgrade path, or is a
> > stop in 5.4 ville manditory now.?
>
> I tried to say that you have to update to 5.4 before you can update
> to 6.0, i.e. updates from older versions are not supported.  It may
> be easier to do a binary upgrade (i.e. download release media and use
> the upgrade option).

At least with a vanilla install of 5.3, I had no problem going directly 
to 6.0.

This was an extremely basic install, and I only did it because I lost my 
6.0-R cd :)

A.

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