Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:00:59 -0800 From: "Michael A. Dickerson" <mikey_nospam@singingtree.com> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: build 4-stable on 3-stable: how? Message-ID: <00ca01c0a5a6$a5ee83c0$db9497cf@singingtree.com>
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> Can anybody explain why to fix it? Or one must use 4.2-release as > trampoline??? A month ago I asked this and Ruslan Ermilov sent me a patch, > but this patch causes build fault also. There seem to be about n ways to do the upgrade, where n is the number of machines that have ever run FreeBSD 3.x. There was a great deal of discussion about this a few weeks ago, you can start by searching the -stable archives for "gperf"; that will get you in to all sorts of 3.5 -> 4.stable upgrade problems. Here is the procedure that worked for me, which was written and revised by Pekka Savola: ----- 1. install some tools that are required to build & install RELENG_4 with old tools: cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/libtxi && make cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/makeinfo && make all install cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/install-info && make all install cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo && make all install clean edit /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/Makefile.cfg, comment out -fno-exceptions from CXXFLAGS cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/libgroff && make cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/groff && make all install clean 2. build world without perl. miniperl requires setresuid which isn't there yet. Perl will be built and installed later. make buildworld -DNOPERL 3. build the kernel and install it. make buildkernel KERNCONF=xxx make installkernel KERNCONF=xxx 4. reboot (multiuser is fine, I use it all the time) reboot 5. install the tools, except perl which was not built ldconfig -R /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc cd /usr/src && make installworld -DNOPERL 6. build and install perl (and optionally sysinstall) cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl && make all install cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall && make all install 7. prepare for mergemaster cp -pr /etc /etc.backup mv /etc/sendmail.cf /etc/mail/ mv /etc/aliases* /etc/mail/ mv /etc/mail/sendmail.cw /etc/mail/local-host-names 8. mergemaster the way you like it, change over to OpenSSH, etc. (note: be especially careful about updating ssh; if you had an old port installed, there will be old copies of config files and binaries in /usr/local/sbin et al. make sure you're running the one you think you are! --MD) 9. change wd* -> ad* in /etc/fstab, create these devices in /dev. 10. clean out lastlog etc., the format changed rm /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp /var/log/lastlog touch /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp /var/log/lastlog 11. reboot and be done ;-) ----- Many people also report success going from 3.stable to 4.2-release, then to 4.stable. Good luck.. M.D. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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