5.3-RELEASE TODO

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Wed Aug 4 20:41:52 PDT 2004


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?

Scott


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