Installing head

Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it
Fri Oct 18 12:15:08 UTC 2019


On 2019-10-16 17:52, Matthew Seaman wrote:

>> Probably my question should have been clearer: is it possible to move 
>> from 12.0 (freshly installed) to HEAD directly *now* (or possibly 
>> after "waiting a little")?
>> Or *must* I go through STABLE?
>> Compiling takes a lot of time and doing it twice takes two lots :)
> 
> This should be possible in theory, but maybe not in practice.  You 
> should always be able to upgrade from the last release on one branch to 
> the first release on the next.  Except, of course, there is no 13.0 
> release just now.

Several compilation hours later, I have my 13-CURRENT system running.
It worked just to upgrade from 12.0.

Using snapshot was a good suggestion, though.

Thanks to all.

  bye
	av.


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