Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 01:40:29 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Philipp Huber <uebs@gmx.at>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: downgrade? Message-ID: <20001008.1402900@bartequi.ottodomain.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010071829270.9267-100000@lcm243.cvzoom.net>
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> > Dear Alfred Perlstein, > > > > <caution type=3D"I haven't (as yet) tried this"> > > > > >From the posts I have been reading, I seem to understand that the > > following may apply (depending on the divergence/relationship betwee= n > > -CURRENT and -STABLE): > > > > -- It may be necessary to downgrade the toolchain (e.g. binutils; > > gcc); > > -- It may be necessary to downgrade "script"utils (ie perl). > > > > </caution> > Yes you're correct there will be problems with perl, that's > why you need a 4.x machine to do the building on and that's also > why you may need several 'make -k installworld' runs to finally > get a 'make installworld' to work. Oooops, I had another problem in mind. I thought of the theoretical general problem of downgrading a -CURRENT machine in a "self-consistent" fashion (ie on the same machine). I haven't done that (so far), so I am not aware of any [other] unwanted side-effects. AFAIR, a few weeks ago, someone performed such an operation (in the first week of August or so); I read several posts about the matter. If somebody has successfully tried such an operation recently (on a PRE_SMPNG machine), s/he will be able to help Phillip. Anyway, your suggestion sounds safer. Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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