From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 7 0:38:27 2002 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 6057C37B400; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 00:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clink.schulte.org (clink.schulte.org [209.134.156.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A043743E52; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 00:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clink.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63192243CF; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 02:34:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tandist.nospam.schulte.org (void.schulte.org [209.134.156.217]) by clink.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B98243BE; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 02:34:06 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.2.20020707022035.04105d30@pop3s.schulte.org> X-Sender: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 02:34:05 -0500 To: Ruslan Ermilov From: Christopher Schulte Subject: Re: source upgrade from 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 to 4.6-stable Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020706144914.GA54094@sunbay.com> References: <5.1.1.6.2.20020706093642.03b3a020@pop3s.schulte.org> <5.1.1.6.2.20020706093642.03b3a020@pop3s.schulte.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre6 on clink.schulte.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:49 PM 7/6/2002 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > Will a 4.0-RELEASE update directly to RELENG_4_6 work, or did your magic > > happen after 4.6-RELEASE and only avail in -STABLE? If that's the case > > I'll probably update to RELENG_4 and revert back to RELENG_4_6. > > >Before 4.6 went out, I've checked explicitly that it can be source upgraded >to from 4.0-RELEASE onwards (modulo the things I mentioned). So yes, this >should be possible, and you have a safe way to test this: > >1. make buildworld >2. make buildkernel >3. make installkernel >4. reboot >5. make installworld >6. mergemaster or equivalent >7. reboot FYI - source update [world/kernel] from 4.0-RELEASE to RELENG_4_6 was successful. For some reason sysctl:net.link.ether.bridge_cfg was not automatically populated. I don't know exactly where the problem originated, so I just set a manual sysctl.conf entry and moved on. Several more minor issues arose, but the point is that the source update works as advertised. Excellent work. >Cheers, >-- >Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, >ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, >ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, >+380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine > >http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve >http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message