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Subject: Re: building CURRENT release on STABLE box
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At 04:08 18/03/2004, Igor Pokrovsky wrote:
>I would like to to try building CURRENT release on STABLE (i386) box.
>Is it technically possible? If so, are there any caveats awaiting me?

   Not possible.  The release-building code needs to chroot into the
-CURRENT world, and that will fail if you're not running a -CURRENT
kernel.

Colin Percival