Re: Transition guide for 5.0

[Andrew Boothman]

Derek Tattersall wrote:

Since FreeBSD 5.0 will be on the stable branch (right?) when it's
released toward the end of this month, is there or will there be a
transition guide for moving from 4-Stable to 5-Stable?  Actually, is
there even really anything to worry about?

Will there be a simple upgrade path (cvsup/buildworld etc) or will it
be an install from scratch and rebuild your ports?

I don't think that FreeBSD 5 will become the stable branch quite as soon as the 5.0 release. It will take some time after that for it to be considered stable enough to be called -stable, if that makes sense :-)

You can rest assured that the upgrade path from 4.x to 5 will be well documented in the 5.x release. When upgrading systems, the file to read is src/sys/UPDATING. If you use cvsweb you should be able to find the -current UPDATING file which already contains documentation about how to upgrade.

Cheers.

Andrew.



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