From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 13:50:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A74516A503 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:50:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail102.csoft.net (lilly.csoft.net [63.111.22.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2F6E43D45 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:50:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mcc@fid4.com) Received: (qmail 33115 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2004 13:50:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (63.111.26.110) by mail102.csoft.net with SMTP; 7 Oct 2004 13:50:27 -0000 Message-ID: <416549CC.2060606@fid4.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 09:51:08 -0400 From: "Michael C. Cambria" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <416467CC.2050506@fid4.com> <9DF20605C4DBB051D9769655@[192.168.1.16]> In-Reply-To: <9DF20605C4DBB051D9769655@[192.168.1.16]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "Jason C. Wells" Subject: Re: build/install RELENG_5 from a 4.10 system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:50:42 -0000 Jason C. Wells wrote: > --On Wednesday, October 06, 2004 5:46 PM -0400 "Michael C. Cambria" > wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to build a RELENG_5 system on a 4.10 system? > > > The others have told you that such things are possible. Thanks to all for the help. I stopped reading UPDATING when I found entries I've seem from 4.x. > I would advise > less adventurous souls to perform a binary upgrade when updating major > version numbers. I did the upgrades from 2-3 and 3-4 in both ways and > the binary upgrade was always easier. I have yet to upgrade from 4-5. > The 5X UPDATING file is the single scariest FreeBSD document I have ever > read. UPDATING made me muss my drawers it was so scary. Don't do > scary! Don't muss your drawers! > > Once you get a booting system, you can sup and make world to RELENG_5. I'm assuming (having not yet read UPDATING) that using DESTDIR & MAKEOBJDIEPREFIX should allow one to screw up a few times without the need to hit the Laundromat :-) Thanks, MikeC -- Michael C. Cambria email : mcc@fid4.com VoIP : sip:mcc@mcambria.fid4.com FWD : sip:63730@fwd.pulver.com WWW : www.fid4.com