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Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE TODO
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Kenneth Culver wrote:

> Quoting Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>:
> 
>> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 01:43:54 -0600 (MDT)
>>> Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> | Source upgrade     | Not done    | David Schultz | problematic. 
>>>> The    |
>>>> | incompatibility    |             |               | 5.3 world 
>>>> sources   |
>>>> |                    |             |               | must be 
>>>> buildable   |
>>>> |                    |             |               | and 
>>>> installable     |
>>>> |                    |             |               | from a 
>>>> 5.2.1        |
>>>> |                    |             |               | 
>>>> system.             |
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Should they not also be buildable and installable from a 4.10 or 
>>> 4.11 system
>>> in order to preserve the -stable upgrade route ?
>>>
>>
>> This would be good, yes, but there are so many other gotchas with that
>> upgrade path that I don't consider it a show-stopper for it not to work.
>> Once the 5.2 -> 5.3 path is fixed, then we can focus on 4.x -> 5.3 path.
>>
>> Scott
> 
> 
> Just to let people know, I recently installed from 5.2.1, then updated to
> -CURRENT via source without a single problem. So what's not working here?
> 
> Ken
> 
> 

Hmm, maybe I'm mis-informed then.  I thought that
snapshots.jp.freebsd.org was having problems building the 5.2-CURRENT
sources because it's world was too old, and that this pointed to a
source upgrade problem.  I guess we need clarification here.  David?

Scott