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Date:      Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:51:18 +0200
From:      "Shane James" <shane@phpboy.co.za>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /usr/src 'make buildworld' problem
Message-ID:  <012901c5a319$9aa60a90$6c0aa8c0@phpboy>
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I'm going to backup all my configs and just reinstall... I've learn't an 
important lesson though! :P "ALways make sure your RELENGS are 100% correct"

We can confirm this at http://www.freebsd.org/releng

ta :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Björn König" <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: "Shane James" <shane@phpboy.co.za>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: /usr/src 'make buildworld' problem


Shane James wrote:
> Well,
>
> I did something quite stupid... I cvsuped to RELENG_5_0 Accidently... 
> managed to get all the way to 'make installworld' but when I rebooted from 
> single user mode it wouldn't boot my new kernel... so I booted kernel.old 
> (5.3-RELEASE) that's working fine... so... I've now cvsuped to RELENG_5 
> and get this error.
>
> So Essentially I'm trying to compile the kernel on a 5.3 kernel with 5.0 
> compilers :/

Consider a binary update. Throw in a CD-ROM, choose "Upgrade" and follow
the instructions. I'm not sure whether sysinstall makes a backup of
/etc, because this upgrade overwrites configuration files, passwd and so
on. Pay attention ... well, too late. :-P

Björn




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