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[Oliver Fromme]

Randy Bush wrote:
 > do folk actually successfully upgrade
 > 
 > # uname -a
 > FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct  1 18:41:24 GMT 2006     root at psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG  i386
 > 
 > to RELENG_6  *safely* on a many-user production system using the
 > instructions in UPDATING?

Worked fine for me, except that I had to "rm -rf /usr/obj"
first which contained data from a previous RELENG_5 update.
Without doing that I got compilation errors during the
buildworld procedure.

Best regards
   Oliver

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