Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:32:35 +0400 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com> Cc: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, "'current@FreeBSD.org'" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can't build -current on 6? Message-ID: <20080525113235.GA59272@team.vega.ru> In-Reply-To: <20080525051321.GA517@what-creek.com> References: <4838EEA7.6030807@freebsd.org> <20080525051321.GA517@what-creek.com>
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On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 05:13:21AM +0000, John Birrell wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 09:44:23PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > Looks like there are some dependency issues with > > some of the cddl stuff. The following is from trying > > to build yesterday's -current on a system with a 6.3 > > kernel and a mostly 6.0 userland. This worked not very > > long ago. > > The reason why it worked not that long ago is that RELENG_7 > hadn't deviated much from RELENG_6. > > It's hard to make any arbitrary FreeBSD version upgrade to current. > A long time ago we made the decision that we'd support upgrades from > just the previous branch to current. > > So, the supported way to upgrade from 6.X is to upgrade to RELENG_7 > and from there you should be able to upgrade to current. > True. -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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