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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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