Re: upgrading 5.x to 6.1.5 or 7?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 30 October 2015 at 23:38, Mike Pumford
<mpumford%black-star.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> I've done 6-7 on an amd64 and i386 systems as follows:
>
> 1. Install new kernel and reboot.
> 2. Untar 7.0 release sets onto 6.x system (while live)
> 3. Reboot again (probably not necessary)
> 4. run etcupdate with the etc.tgz set as source to get /etc up to date
> (although the system ran fine with the 6.x etc)
> 5. Re-install all packages.

But ... why?

If it ain't broke, why fix it?
And if it is broke, there's something wrong with it.

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Ottavio