5.3-RELEASE TODO
Kenneth Culver
culverk at sweetdreamsracing.biz
Wed Aug 4 09:58:32 PDT 2004
Quoting Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org>:
> 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
I've actually done this 2 or 3 times in the last week or 2 on a few different
computers, so unless a recent commit broke something, it should still be ok.
Ken
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