freebsd-update

[marky-mark]

I find I can upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 via freebsd-update and most ports will still run. Is this strange?


is 6.0 binary compat enabled on these GENERIC KERNELS?

thanks

[jgh]

What errors are you getting?

Have you tried updating to 7.1 or 7.2 then to 8.0?

Maybe babysteps update will work for effectively?

[fronclynne]

> grep -i compat /sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
options COMPAT_43TTY # BSD 4.3 TTY compat (sgtty)
options COMPAT_IA32 # Compatible with i386 binaries
options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4
options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5
options COMPAT_FREEBSD6 # Compatible with FreeBSD6
options COMPAT_FREEBSD7 # Compatible with FreeBSD7
device pty # BSD-style compatibility pseudo ttys
device ubsa # Belkin F5U103 and compatible serial adapters


Yes.

But be full warned: deleting obsolete libraries prematurely can result in much hair pulling.