Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:31:55 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make buildworld 6.x on 7.x? Message-ID: <20080124091334.I14280@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> In-Reply-To: <4797A321.3050704@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080123213405.G8230@asterix.home.rakhesh.com> <4797A321.3050704@FreeBSD.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to do a ''make buildworld buildkernel'' of the FreeBSD 6.x >> series sources on a FreeBSD 7.x machine and then install them onto a >> FreeBSD 6.x machine? > > Yes, I did this a few minutes ago in fact :) No special procedures are > necessary, world builds are already suitably isolated from the host system > for this to work. Awesome! Infact, I didn't think it would be possible. Like you have separate port packages for the 6.x and 7.x trees, I thought FreeBSD 6.x compiled on a FreeBSD 7.x system won't run. But I was obviously wrong. Guess its different for the base OS eh ...? Going by the same logic, is it possible that tomm I can download the sources for an OS like say, NetBSD, buildworld for it on my FreeBSD machine, and then install on a NetBSD machine? Thanks, Rakhesh --- http://rakhesh.net/
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