make release of 5.0 on 4.8

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Apr 12 05:05:39 PDT 2003


On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 06:27:51AM -0500, Jay wrote:
> On Sat 12 Apr 2003, thus spake Kris Kennaway:
> > I assume that's not supported, for the reason you suggest (chroot into
> > a directory populated by 5.0 binaries cannot work on 4.x).
> 
> I would never have thought that it would have worked except for the
> sentence in the release notes that said: "It is now possible to make
> releases of FreeBSD 5-CURRENT on a FreeBSD 4-STABLE host and vice
> versa."  http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/relnotes-i386.html#AEN4441

OK, you'd have to ask on current@ then.

Kris
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