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Date:      Sun, 1 Dec 2002 18:10:47 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: [REPORT] Upgrade from 4.0-RELEASE to 5.0-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <20021201161047.GC14831@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DEA2774.DCE1CACD@newsguy.com>
References:  <20021201150303.GA6369@sunbay.com> <3DEA2774.DCE1CACD@newsguy.com>

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On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:15:00PM -0200, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> There I go reply to all... <sigh>
>=20
> IIRC, we never supported upgrade to 4.0 or 4.1 from anybut but the
> *latest* version in the 3.x series. I sure hope we adopt the same policy
> here.
>=20
This popped up several times already, on various open and closed
lists.  This time I'll be short.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 08:28:57AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>
>                          A long time ago ru said he'd do this and he
> has been doing this so I think that we should allow him to continue to
> do this and tell people that want to prematurely tidy up that they
> can't for a while.
>
> Warner

(This was about removing some of the bootstrapping stuff needed to
upgrade from 4.0-RELEASE ~=3D first-day 5.0-CURRENT systems.)

> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >=20
> > [
> >  current@ Cc:'ed because it'll be useful to a number of upgraders.
> >  dougb@ Cc:'ed to be aware of possible mergemaster(8) problems.
> >  imp@ Cc:'ed to be aware of incorrect UPDATING instruction.
> >  peter@ Cc:'ed to LOL about foot-shooting with anti-foot-shooting.
> >  re@ Cc:'ed to consider approving the attached patches.
> > ]
> >=20
> > Hi!
> >=20
> > Following is the report from my attempt to upgrade 4.0-RELEASE
> > system to 5.0-CURRENT.  First, I'd like to say that I succedded
> > in it:
> >=20
> > FreeBSD  4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Mar 20 22:50:22 GMT 20=
00     root@monster.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
> > FreeBSD  5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Dec  1 13:52:37 GMT 20=
02     ru@:/usr/obj/ru/mnt/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru@sunbay.com		Sunbay Software AG,
ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer,
+380.652.512.251	Simferopol, Ukraine

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