5.3-RELEASE TODO

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Aug 4 20:50:07 PDT 2004


In message: <4111ABFF.9050203 at samsco.org>
            Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> writes:
: M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <20040804102101.5e0f4023.steve at sohara.org>
: >             "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve at sohara.org> writes:
: > : 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 ?
: > 
: > I can verify that buildworld works on 4.10 as of yesterday.
: > 
: > Warner
: > 
: 
: Does the resulting world actually work?  Can you install it via DESTDIR
: to another disk and boot off of it?

Sure.  I'll give it a shot...  Last time I tried it, it worked...

Warner


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