From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 08:02:38 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA29425 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 08:02:38 -0700 Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA29414 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 08:02:31 -0700 Received: from cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (cappuccino.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.14]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id KAA26882; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 10:59:45 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id KAA02626; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 10:59:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 10:59:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Christoph Kukulies cc: Werner Griessl , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 205R --> stable ? In-Reply-To: <199508221056.MAA29726@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > 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. If he wants to do it and get it the first time, I think he has to pre-compile and install zic, else the timezone stuff fails. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0.5-snap-0726) and (301) 220-2114 | n3lxx (FreeBSD 2.0.5-snap-0622) -- Great! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------