From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 6 21:56:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 F17E016A41F for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 21:56:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@athame.co.uk) Received: from hex.athame.co.uk (salama58.adsl.netsonic.fi [81.17.207.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F3BB43D82 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 21:56:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@athame.co.uk) Received: from nobby.int.athame.co.uk ([192.168.10.4]) by hex.athame.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1Ejkn6-000EX3-BI; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:56:04 +0200 From: Andy Fawcett Organization: Being Lazy At Home - BLAH! To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 23:55:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200512051518.43896.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <43960445.4050202@jim-liesl.org> <20051206214613.GA79648@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051206214613.GA79648@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512062355.56219.andy@athame.co.uk> Cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Upgrading 5.3 > 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:56:08 -0000 On Tuesday 06 December 2005 23:46, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:36:05PM -0700, secmgr wrote: > > >Update to 5.4 before trying to update to 6.0. > > > > > >Kris > > > > So is there any supported direct 5.3->6.0 upgrade path, or is a > > stop in 5.4 ville manditory now.? > > I tried to say that you have to update to 5.4 before you can update > to 6.0, i.e. updates from older versions are not supported. It may > be easier to do a binary upgrade (i.e. download release media and use > the upgrade option). At least with a vanilla install of 5.3, I had no problem going directly to 6.0. This was an extremely basic install, and I only did it because I lost my 6.0-R cd :) A. -- Andy Fawcett | andy@athame.co.uk | tap@kde.org "In an open world without walls and fences, | tap@lspace.org we wouldn't need Windows and Gates." -- anon | tap@fruitsalad.org