From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 9 17:49:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E33D37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.lewiz.org (pam80-1-15-148.man.dial.ntli.net [80.1.15.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B799E43FCB for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:49:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lewiz@green.lewiz.org) Received: from green.lewiz.org ([192.168.0.10]) by mail.lewiz.org with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 19aPcI-000EOB-RY; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:48:58 +0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 15544 invoked by uid 4001); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:49:09 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:49:08 +0100 From: lewiz To: Jeff MacDonald Message-ID: <20030710004908.GB15523@lewiz.org> Mail-Followup-To: lewiz , Jeff MacDonald , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <000001c34656$f125bd60$0200a8c0@crusty> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c34656$f125bd60$0200a8c0@crusty> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make buildworld .. 4.5 to 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:49:11 -0000 --oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:16:12PM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > Is it safe to do the mergemaster/makebuildworld etc. operation > on it to bring it from 4.5 to 4.8 in one step ? I can't vouch for having done it but technically it is absolutely possible and I doubt you would run into any serious trouble. If you're really worried about upgrading between more than one minor release you could always try incrementing, which will work for sure. It seems a rather silly way to do it though. Best wishes, -lewiz. --=20 Alas, I am dying beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, as he sipped champagne on his deathbed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jab:lewiz@jabber.org | url:http://lewiz.net |- --oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/DLgEItq0KFQv7T8RAlW1AJ9F8oOLW4FewTPTJ1IBGb5R851A4gCgtg6O tz5dhULqoH71rLw6FG+LjPk= =3RfM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl--