Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:59:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Henri Hennebert <hlh@restart.be> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing release version on source Message-ID: <200603150159.k2F1x1ci058567@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <20060309085658.o6d44acukg4ksso8@webmail.restart.be>
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Henri Hennebert writes: | > Glenn Dawson wrote: | >> At 12:06 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: | >>> Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source | >>> code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on | >>> FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am | >>> wondering i can change the version of RELENG_5 code so that this | >>> software will think its 5.3-R and let me install. I have tried | >>> changing the variable in /usr/src/release/Makefile, but that seems | >>> to have no effect. | >> | >> Take a look at sys/conf/newvers.sh | > | > Excellent, thanks! I'm presuming i have to do a full build/install | > world for this to take effect. Do you think that anything may break | > because of this manual change, even if i used RELENG_6 code? I will not | > be installing any ports. | | I would prefer to wrap /usr/bin/uname with a temporary custom version | returning | the disired values. You can use UNAME_ over-rides. Doug A.
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