Can't build -current on 6?
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at freebsd.org
Sun May 25 11:53:07 UTC 2008
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 05:13:21AM +0000, John Birrell wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 09:44:23PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > Looks like there are some dependency issues with
> > some of the cddl stuff. The following is from trying
> > to build yesterday's -current on a system with a 6.3
> > kernel and a mostly 6.0 userland. This worked not very
> > long ago.
>
> The reason why it worked not that long ago is that RELENG_7
> hadn't deviated much from RELENG_6.
>
> It's hard to make any arbitrary FreeBSD version upgrade to current.
> A long time ago we made the decision that we'd support upgrades from
> just the previous branch to current.
>
> So, the supported way to upgrade from 6.X is to upgrade to RELENG_7
> and from there you should be able to upgrade to current.
>
True.
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