problem: world boot strapping from 7-C to HEAD with CDDL on sparc64?

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, John Birrell wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:53:02PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, John Birrell wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:06:41AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am having a bootstrapping problem on sparc64 with CDDL but cannot
>>>> find anything in UPDATING for that.
>>>>
>>>> See:
>>>> http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/tmp/sparc64-compile-world.txt
>>>>
>>>> Should that be documented?
>>>
>>> Is this an up-to-date RELENG_7 system? If so, I think it should have the
>>
>> check the text file references. It has an uname -a in the first line.
>>
>> It is a 7-CURRENT from 2006. UPDATING says we support updating from 6
>> or newer so something is wrong. Either bootstrapping or UPDATING. I
>> guess it's the former...
>
> I thought our policy was that you had to update to the latest on a RELENG_X
> branch before updating to the next branch or to current.

UPDATING says:

20080123:
         To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running
         FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE.  Upgrading to -current
         from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems.


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