Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:31:06 +0300 From: Igor Pokrovsky <tiamat@comset.net> To: Chris Knight <chris@e-easy.com.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building CURRENT release on STABLE box Message-ID: <20040318053106.GA14871@doom.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <200403180438.i2I4cYcj046116@postoffice.e-easy.com.au> References: <MDAEMON-F200403181509.AA0924122pd80000155363@e-easy.com.au> <200403180438.i2I4cYcj046116@postoffice.e-easy.com.au>
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 03:37:44PM +1100, Chris Knight wrote: > Howdy, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Igor Pokrovsky [mailto:tiamat@comset.net] > > Sent: Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:08 > > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > Subject: building CURRENT release on STABLE box > > > > Hello all, > > > > 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? > > > /usr/src should contain a checkout of -stable, and have a buildworld > done from that. > You then need to checkout src/release from -current, but put it in > /usr/src5/release for example. > You then need to cd to /usr/src/release and issue the make release, but > pointing to the -current release Makefile > For example: > > mkdir /usr/src4 > cvs co -rRELENG_4 -d/usr/src4 src > mkdir -p /usr/src5/release > cvs co -d/usr/src5/release release > cd /usr/src4 > make buildworld > cd release > make -f /usr/src5/release/Makefile release ... > > where ... means to add your release flags accordingly. > > Thanks very much to Ruslan and others for making this work! > > The caveat is that the release build may not complete successfully, > or work correctly. > Thanks for a hint Chris. I'll give it a try. The reason behind this was to upgrade STABLE box. AFAIK some people successed in doing upgrade to CURRENT by building world + doing many additional things manually, but I have little experience with CURRENT... As I don't have CURRENT installation CD and don't know where to buy it around here, I was thinking about building one myself. -ip -- An expert doesn't know any more than you do. He or she is merely better organized and uses slides.
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