freebsd-update from 9.3 to 11.0

[Doug Hardie]

> On 7 August 2016, at 13:59, Florian Ermisch <florian.ermisch at alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
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> Am 7. August 2016 08:37:45 MESZ, schrieb Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu>:
>> […]
>>> I have a number of production systems on 9.3 that need to be
>>> upgraded.  I can't go to 10.x as it won't boot on that hardware.
>>> However, 11.0 does boot.  I can't afford the downtime to completely
>>> rebuild them.
>> 
>> Uh, that sounds complicated.
> 
> Maybe it's worth the hassle to set up
> a freebsd-update server which provides 
> a 11.0 Kernel with a 10.x userland as
> 10.x-RELEASE? It's a hack, but only
> needed for the upgrade…
> 
> Regards, Florian


Comment #5 to https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211398 has a patch that gets you very close to the right place for 9.3.  However, that patch works and I am now able to upgrade to 11.0-BETA4.  I have one server almost completed.  There are a couple of issues with packages, but they are being worked out.