Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:25:16 -0500 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing release version on source Message-ID: <440F3DAC.4030402@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060308120809.03286448@antimatter.net> References: <440F393C.9030302@rogers.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060308120809.03286448@antimatter.net>
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Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 12:06 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: >> Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source >> code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on FreeBSD >> 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am wondering i >> can change the version of RELENG_5 code so that this software will >> think its 5.3-R and let me install. I have tried changing the >> variable in /usr/src/release/Makefile, but that seems to have no effect. > > Take a look at sys/conf/newvers.sh Excellent, thanks! I'm presuming i have to do a full build/install world for this to take effect. Do you think that anything may break because of this manual change, even if i used RELENG_6 code? I will not be installing any ports.
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