building CURRENT release on STABLE box

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 7:08 AM +0300 3/18/04, Igor Pokrovsky wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I would like to to try building CURRENT release on STABLE (i386) box.
>Is it technically possible? If so, are there any caveats awaiting me?
>
>Thanks,

It depends on what you mean by that.  You can not do a 'make release'
for -current while running -stable, for instance.

However, if you mean you just want to upgrade your -stable box so
that it is running some recent snapshot of -current, then that should
be workable.  Just update your /usr/src to the appropriate tag, and
check through the entries in /usr/src/UPDATING (although that is
probably going to describe many events you don't really care about
when jumping from 4.9-stable to a recent current).

You do have to be a bit more careful about following ALL of the
standard steps for doing an upgrade, and avoid the temptation to
try any of of the "shortcuts which usually work".  Once you update
your /usr/src tree, your /usr/src/UPDATING file will include a
section on:      To upgrade in-place from 4.x-stable to current

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