From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 20 07:57:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E26B16A588 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:57:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553CD43D64 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:56:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (ybkven@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k9K7uW5x062617; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:56:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k9K7uVd2062616; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:56:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:56:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200610200756.k9K7uVd2062616@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, randy@psg.com In-Reply-To: <17719.43574.819134.370333@roam.psg.com> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:56:38 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: 5 to 6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, randy@psg.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:57:58 -0000 Randy Bush wrote: > do folk actually successfully upgrade > > # uname -a > FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct 1 18:41:24 GMT 2006 root@psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG i386 > > to RELENG_6 *safely* on a many-user production system using the > instructions in UPDATING? Worked fine for me, except that I had to "rm -rf /usr/obj" first which contained data from a previous RELENG_5 update. Without doing that I got compilation errors during the buildworld procedure. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." -- Robert Firth