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.