Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:09:02 -0800 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> Cc: "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Building 4.x releases on 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <41D31CEE.5040803@wadham.ox.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <41D31B8E.7030305@portaone.com> References: <41D31B8E.7030305@portaone.com>
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Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Does anybody knows if subject is possible? I guess that it is not due to > usage of vn(4) in the release building process, has anybody any insights > about actual state of things and/or another potential problems in mind. > If the only problem is vn(4) vs. md(4), I think it can be solved quite > easily, while providing a good way to avoid having separate test > machines for oldest branches. I'm fairly certain that this is possible; certainly what I do on my FreeBSD Update buildbox (building 4.x worlds and kernels inside jails while running a 5.x kernel) is pretty much equivalent. One problem you may encounter involves /dev -- you'll need to mount a devfs inside the 4.x chroot rather than trying to MAKEDEV everything. I'm not sure if the `make release` code handles this. Colin Percival
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