From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 7 15:27:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE0DC37B502 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 15:27:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e97MRoV05952; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 15:27:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 15:27:50 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: Philipp Huber , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: downgrade? Message-ID: <20001007152749.Z272@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001007130438.D244@tori.mini.net> <20001007041328.S272@fw.wintelcom.net> <20001007.20152800@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001007.20152800@bartequi.ottodomain.org>; from bartequi@inwind.it on Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 08:15:28PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Salvo Bartolotta [001007 12:14] wrote: > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > On 10/7/00, 12:13:28 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote > regarding Re: downgrade?: > > > > * Philipp Huber [001007 04:08] wrote: > > > hi! > > > > > > is it possible to downgrade a freebsd-current installation to -stable? > > > or is it better to reinstall the whole system? > > > It's possible by building a 4.x-stable system and tar'ing the > > /usr/src and /usr/obj over to your -current then doing several > > 'make -k installworld' followed by a 'make installworld' to make > > sure it's all been installed then by building a kernel using the > > "make buildkernel" method described in src/UPDATING. > > > -- > > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." > > > > Dear Alfred Perlstein, > > > > >From the posts I have been reading, I seem to understand that the > following may apply (depending on the divergence/relationship between > -CURRENT and -STABLE): > > -- It may be necessary to downgrade the toolchain (e.g. binutils; > gcc); > -- It may be necessary to downgrade "script"utils (ie perl). > > Yes you're correct there will be problems with perl, that's why you need a 4.x machine to do the building on and that's also why you may need several 'make -k installworld' runs to finally get a 'make installworld' to work. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message