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An in-place upgrade from 6.1 to 12.1 without major issues? That is indeed tremendously impressive.
by hpkuarg 6y ago
An in-place upgrade from 6.1 to 12.1 without major issues? That is indeed tremendously impressive.
- loeg 6y agoI've done the same thing with in-place Fedora upgrades over a similar time-frame. It is impressive, but not unrivaled in the Linux world. (I'm not playing favorites with Linux here: I'm a FreeBSD developer.)
- agumonkey 6y agoThere's also a famous video on youtube where some guy installs every versions of windows (maybe not 1 and 2) back to back and it kinda works (passing custom configuration most of the time too)
- rhizome 6y agomergemaster is still a drag
- crest 6y agoFreeBSD 10.0 and newer include etcupdate (and it has been available as port even longer) which improves a lot upon mergemaster through the use of 3way instead of 2way merges. Recent releases also added ways to keep most of your config in your own files (often included from /usr/local/etc) to avoid merge conflicts. Simple systems can often upgrade without any merge conflicts at all.
- butterisgood 6y agoetcupdate is great! Wish it was the documented way to do that step in the manual.
- 0mp 6y agoI'm also using etcupdate. It's also the default for beinstall(8), a very nice tool to install updates into a separate boot environment.