Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:24:27 -0400 From: Gregory Norman <gnorm@mac.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup tag for 4.8-STABLE? Message-ID: <477C2468-A9B7-11D7-B4C5-003065A51656@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <441xxe9sd9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Hello, On the same note, will *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_8 work to update from 4.4 Release to 4.8 Stable? Gregory Norman On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 10:41 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Christoph Kukulies <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes: > >> I wanted to cvsup src-all from 4.8-STABLE and tried with >> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 >> >> Is this correct? > > Either that or RELENG_4_8, where the latter only gets absolutely > critical fixes. > >> The cvsup went fine but building the src tree resulted in >> errors. >> >> First I got some from some multiply defined typedef (first make world). > > You mean "make buildworld"? If not, please try the recommended > procedure before asking for help. > >> Then I did a 'make includes' FWIW, and the subsequent make world then >> gave >> a different error: >> >> In file included from >> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/info/../../../../contrib/texinfo/info/terminal. >> c:35: >> /usr/include/termcap.h:42: ncurses_dll.h: No such file or directory >> mkdep: compile failed >> *** Error code 1 >> >> >> I could have a tainted installation with traces from 5.0R but I thought >> that a cvsup would wipe them out in /usr/src and /usr/include as well. > > In the former, only if you had "adopted" the source tree first (see > the cvsup faq). In the latter, no, not necessarily. > > Moving from 5.x to 4.x through a source "upgrade" is going to be a bit > tricky, even for experts. Cleaning out the stuff that no longer > applies is definitely part of the problem. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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