From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 13 11: 6:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4408437BF6C for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:06:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net. [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA89430; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:02:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <396E0436.27BB1A22@thehousleys.net> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:02:30 -0400 From: James Housley Organization: The Housleys dot Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Andreas Klemm , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to update from FreeBSD 2.2.8 to RELENG_4 References: <20000713091845.A2997@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <396E020E.D959D41E@cup.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > No, but I did plan on adding support for upgrading from 2.2.x to 4.0. > The way we buildworld now should automaticly help you over the aout-elf > hurdle. It should be just a matter of adding the appropriate tools to > the bootstrap-tools target. > > If you have the time, I hope you are willing to spend some time and > effort to work on getting a 1-step upgrade working (or at least the > buildworld part). Since I don't have a 2.2.8 machine, I can only do as > much as support you... > Next Friday (July 21) have to do just that. Upgrade a 2.2.8-STABLE machine to 4.0-STABLE. If the tools are in place I will test them. If it fails I will do a binary install of 4.0 and then upgrade. Jim -- "...there's no idea that's so good you can't ruin it with a few well-placed idiots." -- Charles Spickman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message