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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:27:13 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make buildworld 6.x on 7.x?
Message-ID:  <4797A321.3050704@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080123213405.G8230@asterix.home.rakhesh.com>
References:  <20080123213405.G8230@asterix.home.rakhesh.com>

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Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to do a ''make buildworld buildkernel'' of the FreeBSD 
> 6.x series sources on a FreeBSD 7.x machine and then install them onto a 
> FreeBSD 6.x machine?

Yes, I did this a few minutes ago in fact :)  No special procedures are 
necessary, world builds are already suitably isolated from the host 
system for this to work.

Kris




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