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Date:      Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:32:56 -0800
From:      David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Moving from 4.7-STABLE to 5.0
Message-ID:  <20030108163256.GA539@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030108153728.GD89960@ns2.wananchi.com>
References:  <20030108105259.GA43103@ns2.wananchi.com> <20030108115631.GE82633@tepsi.mindworks.hu> <20030108153728.GD89960@ns2.wananchi.com>

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> * Janos Feher <aries@mindworks.hu> [20030108 16:30]: wrote:
> > On Jan 08 2003, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > > In a nutshell, I am requesting anyone who has gone through
> > > this path of updating and willing to share their notes on it
> > > to help me out.
> > 
> > Just comment this line out, and do a make installword NOCLEAN=yes.
> > Before this, backup the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin , /usr/sbin/ and /usr/lib . The installworld
> > will fail again, because it installed the /bin/sh , but it use the libc.so.4 . Just
> > put the saved sh into /bin/sh , and try to make installworld again. At the near end, it
> > will fail again, but don't worry. Download the DP2's bootfloppies, and try to boot with
> > them. After this, you should do a ln -s /usr/lib/libc.so.5 /usr/lib/libc.so.4 , because
> > the ports using the old /usr/lib/libc.so.4 , but they need the system calls built in libc.so.5
> > ... Some of the ports won't run (like mozilla, gdb etc.), but the server applications
> > like xdm, mysql, slapd, apache, vim :) will.
> > 
> > Not easy.

It works better if you RTFM, instead of removing the
anti-footshooting devices on purpose so you can shoot
yourself in the foot.

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