And make sure you buy a CD for each individual upgrade.
>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.
