On Sat, Oct 13, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Marc Espie wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:47:50AM -0500, Matt Morrow wrote: > > After dealing with a number of issues due to an old 3.8 install which have > > been resolved in current releases, I think I'm going to do the individual > > release upgrades (3.8->3.9->4.0, etc etc) [...] > Do you *really* want to go from 3.8 to 5.2 one release at a time ?.. > I think this is just one case where I would backup, reinstall, fix > things...
While technically this method is unsupported, what I would do if faced with this predicament is backup, upgrade the 3.8 install directly to 5.2 and then make all the changes that have taken place in between. (This assumes it's i386, btw.) If for some reason I wound up with a busted system (I'm really not sure how well 5.2 would react to a 3.8-era ports database, for example), I'd start over with a clean 5.2 install and restore what I needed from the backups. That said, going through each individual release upgrade may be a bit safer, but it's a lot more time consuming. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com
