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From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: questions@freebsd.org, werner@btp1x5.phy.uni-bayreuth.de
Subject:  Re: 205R --> stable ?
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>> Is it possible to upgrade from a LIVING FreeBSD-2.0.5-Release to
>> FreeBSD-stable when I have the stable-source-tree ?
>
>I would try doing a make world in /usr/src and see where it stops.
>Maybe you will have to create some things by hand (like
>/usr/src/share/dict/eign or /usr/share/dict/eign) but I believe there hadn't
>been any major kernel structure changes that would make the binaries
>stop working. There was a change that stopped ps from working I recall,
>requiring to rebuild the kernel and libkvm.

I just sup'd stable last week, did a make world, and everything worked
fine.  I was running a "living" 2.0.5R.

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org