From: "Alexey V. Neyman" <avn@any.ru> To: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua> Cc: "Eugene M. Kim" <ab@astralblue.net>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Old compiler (3.3-stable -> 4->stable) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105161132110.14552-100000@srv2.any> In-Reply-To: <20010516004223.A800@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
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hi, there! On Wed, 16 May 2001, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:41:55, ab (Eugene M. Kim) wrote about "Old compiler (3.3-stable -> 4->stable)": > >> I'm having some hard time getting a machine upgraded from 3.3-stable to >> 4-stable. > >It is better now to do binary upgrade from 3.x to 4.3, if your Internet >connection allows to download `bin' package (~50M). (But for mergemaster >you must untar or cvsup full sources.) Upgrade via `make world' will >fail in too many places, such as perl, gperf & groff, kernel... I found the following sequence to be rather fail-safe: 3.5.1-R -> 4.2-R -> 4.3-S, I tested it a few times and it have not failed me. # Alexey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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