From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 10:10:13 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633A7106566B; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:10:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from mail.cksoft.de (mail.cksoft.de [IPv6:2001:4068:10::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381E78FC1B; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:10:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (amavis.fra.cksoft.de [192.168.74.71]) by mail.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3964641C6DB; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:10:06 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cksoft.de Received: from mail.cksoft.de ([192.168.74.103]) by localhost (amavis.fra.cksoft.de [192.168.74.71]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nx6YGdsqYwuE; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:10:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id BFEB441C6F2; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:10:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net (maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net [10.111.66.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949D24448F3; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:06:53 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net To: Mark Andrews In-Reply-To: <20110130234533.5C86C94D3C0@drugs.dv.isc.org> Message-ID: <20110131095539.N39951@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <20110130234533.5C86C94D3C0@drugs.dv.isc.org> X-OpenPGP-Key: 0x14003F198FEFA3E77207EE8D2B58B8F83CCF1842 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: RELEASE_6 -> RELEASE_8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:10:13 -0000 On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Mark Andrews wrote: > > I was trying to upgrade a machine from RELEASE_6 (latest) > to RELEASE_8 (latest) via source. I was unable to get > make buildworld to complete. You need latest N to go to N+1, so a 6.4-RELEASE or RELENG_6 after that should be able to go to 7.x but not straight to 8. Multi-Release-Hop-Updates have been working once in a while in the past with other releases but were never officially supported. Not even a say 7.1 might be able to go to straight 8.x btw. Unfortunately UPDATING wasn't really updated in that regard for a while and might still say "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to current" in older branches; I know it was fixed in 9 for 8 in [1] as part of a large cleanup but I think a similar change never made it back to other stable branches. /bz [1] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/UPDATING?revision=196789&view=markup -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! Going to jail sucks -- All my daemons like it! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails.html