From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Oct 16 15:35:46 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1573B1480DE for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:35:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.netfence.it (net-2-44-121-52.cust.vodafonedsl.it [2.44.121.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mailserver.netfence.it", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46tbwd25Chz3QGY for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:35:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by soth.netfence.it (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id x9GFZckd020414 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:35:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=netfence.it; s=201910; t=1571240140; bh=JsHWChS54pKsckiCboYxHJsHsMMHqXVwedzc+LJ/XGs=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=EG0SToV3WfSrqNs7WhjdL7kqmbw2nlDz9pUJKY1ERz1rfz0mpRgfAyu6r67lhmt5q kQ0Z5ac8RATJr2dlYUqAKO529jLxA0SaDPma2x7xNVVMayDE99luqDIV1nK5g7szOp wvQklckaq0lqYJVx9cPhCFvKhdSQUrP/hOS/9yUc= X-Authentication-Warning: soth.netfence.it: Host alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18] claimed to be alamar.ventu Subject: Re: Installing head To: Polytropon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20191016172608.b45d9da4.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:35:38 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20191016172608.b45d9da4.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46tbwd25Chz3QGY X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=netfence.it header.s=201910 header.b=EG0SToV3; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of ml@netfence.it designates 2.44.121.52 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=ml@netfence.it X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.31 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[netfence.it:s=201910]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:2.44.121.52:c]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; HAS_XAW(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[netfence.it]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[netfence.it:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; IP_SCORE(-1.81)[ip: (-5.91), ipnet: 2.44.0.0/16(-2.96), asn: 30722(-0.22), country: IT(0.03)]; ASN(0.00)[asn:30722, ipnet:2.44.0.0/16, country:IT]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:35:46 -0000 On 2019-10-16 17:26, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:02:00 +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: >> Sorry for the stupid questions: I'm trying to install a HEAD system, in >> order to perform some tests. >> >> I tried starting from a 12.0 and building world, but I got some errors. >> Should I move to 12-STABLE before I try HEAD? > > Usually -STABLE is a good point to start, but always remember > that -HEAD is a development branch and therefore sometimes > won't build. Wait a little, then obtain a more recent source > tree via svn. > > If you start with -RELEASE and can build -STABLE, it will > show that your build environment basically works. You then > have the more recent one of -STABLE, which should be fine > for building -HEAD. > > The approach you're thinking about is not wrong. :-) Thanks. Probably my question should have been clearer: is it possible to move from 12.0 (freshly installed) to HEAD directly *now* (or possibly after "waiting a little")? Or *must* I go through STABLE? Compiling takes a lot of time and doing it twice takes two lots :) bye & Thanks av.