From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 20:11:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C14A516A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:11:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from tx2.oucs.ox.ac.uk (tx2.oucs.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E03E43D39 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:11:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from scan2.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.162] helo=localhost) by tx2.oucs.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B3os0-0008NF-Kt for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 04:11:00 +0000 Received: from rx2.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.161]) by localhost (scan2.oucs.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.162]) (amavisd-new, port 25) with ESMTP id 31734-09 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 04:11:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.161.253]) by rx2.oucs.ox.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B3os0-0008NC-7V for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 04:11:00 +0000 Received: (qmail 27597 invoked by uid 1004); 18 Mar 2004 04:11:00 -0000 Received: from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk by gateway by uid 71 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamscan: 0.67. sweep: 2.18/3.79. Clear:RC:1(163.1.161.131):. Processed in 0.139901 secs); 18 Mar 2004 04:11:00 -0000 Received: from dhcp1131.wadham.ox.ac.uk (HELO piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk) (163.1.161.131) by gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk with SMTP; 18 Mar 2004 04:10:59 -0000 Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.1.20040318041014.03e10230@imap.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@imap.sfu.ca (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.1.1 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 04:10:56 +0000 To: Igor Pokrovsky From: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <20040318040816.GA1175@doom.homeunix.org> References: <20040318040816.GA1175@doom.homeunix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building CURRENT release on STABLE box X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 04:11:01 -0000 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