Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 23:38:04 -0500 (EST) From: Spidey <spidey@jsp.umontreal.ca> To: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.0-stable cvsup tag Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990304233611.1342B-100000@localhost.jsp.umontreal.ca> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990304201339.00923330@mail-r>
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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > At 08:04 PM 3/4/99 , Spidey wrote: > >On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > > > >Na... I was on 3.0R, and tried to go to 3.0S, but the standard > >stable-supfiles were with the tag RELENG_2_2 in the CD!!! > > My 2.2.8-R stable-supfile said RELENG_2_2 too :) > You have to remember that when 3.0R came out, RELENG_3 didn't exist yet. > 3.0 was still -CURRENT. Yes.. Forgot that, sorry... > >Well, I haven't got that far yet... It seems that -stable is unstable, as > >I'm unable to complete a make world... but thanks for the tip! > > See if you can get a copy of the error messages (man script), search the > mailing list archives, post to the list, etc. Yes... Still waiting for it to finish.. > >> I'm afraid I can't offer any more help, as I went from 2.2.8-R straight to > >> 3.0-S via the make aout-to-elf route and subsequent make worlds. > > > >Was that easy? just curious... > > Yes, actually. I read through "Ruslan Ermilov's upgrading docs found > at http://www.ucb.crimea.ua/~ru/FreeBSD/30upgrade.html" and "``Making the > world'' your own By Nik Clayton at > http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html". > Then I installed the mergemaster port, did a CVSup, then a 2-part > aout-to-elf upgrade as per Ruslan's instructions. I remade my /dev > according to Nik's instructions (since mergemaster didn't seem to take care > of that for me). Except for having to 'rm -R > /sys/i386/conf/../../compile/TOY' in order to get 'make depend' to work > right with a new kernel compile, I didn't have any problems. mergemaster??? And for the rm -R, I think that a simple make clean should have done it... > Well, actually I did have one problem, and that was because I did a 'make > depend ; make ; make install' instead of 'make depend && make && make > install' so it installed a previously compiled 2.2.8-R kernel in place of > my brand new ELF kernel. I just booted with kernel.old (the 3.0-S generic > kernel made during the upgrade) and remade a new 3.0-S kernel. > > Since the upgrade to stable, I've done one make world and am currently > experimenting with vinum (think I've got it right this time). Vinum? Anyways... thanks for everything! ############################### ## Au nom de l'etat, ## ## La force s'appelle droit. ## ## Au main de l'individu, ## ## Elle se nomme crime. ## ## ## ## -Berurier Noir ## ############################### Spidey Visitez http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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