Re: upgrading 5.x to 6.1.5 or 7?

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%black-star.demon.co.uk@localhost>]

Ottavio Caruso wrote:

> But ... why?
Because 6.x isn't going to be supported forever and since my experience 
with the 7.x BETA was good I didn't see any reason to delay the upgrade 
on any machine where it worked. I still have one internet connected 6.x 
system (my firewall) but that to will go through the same process once 
I've validated that the 7.x packet filtering code works.

> If it ain't broke, why fix it?
>
Well it was slightly broke. All those out of date packages had a 
mish-mash of security vulnerabilities and since some of the machine is 
exposed to the internet it seemed like a good idea to resolve that.

> And if it is broke, there's something wrong with it.
Which is why I went through the process.

Apart from the reinstall all packages step that sequence is what I do 
for all NetBSD os upgrades. If you have a machine that can do release 
builds quickly (which I do) its by far the easiest approach I've found.

Mike