From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 7 4:13:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1931D37B502 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 04:13:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e97BDTU20716; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 04:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 04:13:28 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Philipp Huber Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: downgrade? Message-ID: <20001007041328.S272@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001007130438.D244@tori.mini.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001007130438.D244@tori.mini.net>; from uebs@gmx.at on Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:04:38PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Philipp Huber [001007 04:08] wrote: > hi! > > is it possible to downgrade a freebsd-current installation to -stable? > or is it better to reinstall the whole system? It's possible by building a 4.x-stable system and tar'ing the /usr/src and /usr/obj over to your -current then doing several 'make -k installworld' followed by a 'make installworld' to make sure it's all been installed then by building a kernel using the "make buildkernel" method described in src/UPDATING. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message