5.3-RELEASE TODO
Scott Long
scottl at freebsd.org
Wed Aug 4 09:29:36 PDT 2004
Kenneth Culver wrote:
> Quoting Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org>:
>
>> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 01:43:54 -0600 (MDT)
>>> Scott Long <scottl at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> | Source upgrade | Not done | David Schultz | problematic.
>>>> The |
>>>> | incompatibility | | | 5.3 world
>>>> sources |
>>>> | | | | must be
>>>> buildable |
>>>> | | | | and
>>>> installable |
>>>> | | | | from a
>>>> 5.2.1 |
>>>> | | | |
>>>> system. |
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Should they not also be buildable and installable from a 4.10 or
>>> 4.11 system
>>> in order to preserve the -stable upgrade route ?
>>>
>>
>> This would be good, yes, but there are so many other gotchas with that
>> upgrade path that I don't consider it a show-stopper for it not to work.
>> Once the 5.2 -> 5.3 path is fixed, then we can focus on 4.x -> 5.3 path.
>>
>> Scott
>
>
> Just to let people know, I recently installed from 5.2.1, then updated to
> -CURRENT via source without a single problem. So what's not working here?
>
> Ken
>
>
Hmm, maybe I'm mis-informed then. I thought that
snapshots.jp.freebsd.org was having problems building the 5.2-CURRENT
sources because it's world was too old, and that this pointed to a
source upgrade problem. I guess we need clarification here. David?
Scott
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