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From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz>
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Quoting Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>:

> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 01:43:54 -0600 (MDT)
>> Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> | Source upgrade     | Not done    | David Schultz | problematic. The    |
>>> | incompatibility    |             |               | 5.3 world sources   |
>>> |                    |             |               | must be buildable   |
>>> |                    |             |               | and installable     |
>>> |                    |             |               | from a 5.2.1        |
>>> |                    |             |               | system.             |
>>
>>
>> 	Should they not also be buildable and installable from a 4.10 or 
>> 4.11 system
>> in order to preserve the -stable upgrade route ?
>>
>
> This would be good, yes, but there are so many other gotchas with that
> upgrade path that I don't consider it a show-stopper for it not to work.
> Once the 5.2 -> 5.3 path is fixed, then we can focus on 4.x -> 5.3 path.
>
> Scott

Just to let people know, I recently installed from 5.2.1, then updated to
-CURRENT via source without a single problem. So what's not working here?

Ken