From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 21:31:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9CA16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:31:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from doom.homeunix.org (9-225.dialup.comset.net [213.172.9.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AAAB43D1D for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:31:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from igor@doom.homeunix.org) Received: from doom.homeunix.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by doom.homeunix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i2I5V8dj073927; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:31:11 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from igor@doom.homeunix.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by doom.homeunix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i2I5V6d7073926; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:31:06 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from igor) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:31:06 +0300 From: Igor Pokrovsky To: Chris Knight Message-ID: <20040318053106.GA14871@doom.homeunix.org> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Knight , stable@freebsd.org References: <200403180438.i2I4cYcj046116@postoffice.e-easy.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403180438.i2I4cYcj046116@postoffice.e-easy.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building CURRENT release on STABLE box X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 05:31:46 -0000 On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 03:37:44PM +1100, Chris Knight wrote: > Howdy, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Igor Pokrovsky [mailto:tiamat@comset.net] > > Sent: Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:08 > > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > Subject: building CURRENT release on STABLE box > > > > 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? > > > /usr/src should contain a checkout of -stable, and have a buildworld > done from that. > You then need to checkout src/release from -current, but put it in > /usr/src5/release for example. > You then need to cd to /usr/src/release and issue the make release, but > pointing to the -current release Makefile > For example: > > mkdir /usr/src4 > cvs co -rRELENG_4 -d/usr/src4 src > mkdir -p /usr/src5/release > cvs co -d/usr/src5/release release > cd /usr/src4 > make buildworld > cd release > make -f /usr/src5/release/Makefile release ... > > where ... means to add your release flags accordingly. > > Thanks very much to Ruslan and others for making this work! > > The caveat is that the release build may not complete successfully, > or work correctly. > Thanks for a hint Chris. I'll give it a try. The reason behind this was to upgrade STABLE box. AFAIK some people successed in doing upgrade to CURRENT by building world + doing many additional things manually, but I have little experience with CURRENT... As I don't have CURRENT installation CD and don't know where to buy it around here, I was thinking about building one myself. -ip -- An expert doesn't know any more than you do. He or she is merely better organized and uses slides.