Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:52:52 +0530 From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> To: John Gillis <zefram@zefram.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compiling 4-RELEASE on 5-STABLE Message-ID: <b2807d0404101321223f96161e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041014000024.T27161@dante.zefram.net> References: <20041014000024.T27161@dante.zefram.net>
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:11:05 -0400 (EDT), John Gillis <zefram@zefram.net> wrote: > My apologies if this has already been asked. I'd like to upgrade > my non-production machines to 5.3 Nice idea once it is released, however I'd like > the production servers to lag behind once I make sure everything is > working right. If everything is not working right, then 5.3 wouldnever be tagged STABLE. This is not Windows. > This might mean that my production servers would be running 4.x > for the next few months. Compiling world, the kernel, and ports is done on > non-production machines however, with the ports being packaged and > installed on the servers and /usr/src being NFS mounted from a > non-production machine. 4.10-R uses gcc 2.95 and 5.3 uses gcc 3.4. The binaries compiled with the later are not backward compatble. > After installing 5.3 on the non-production machines, I'd like to > track the 4-RELEASEs into another directory, say /usr/src.4 while tracking > 5.3-RELEASE in /usr/src. This can be done without trouble. man cvsup. <snip> Regards S. -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India
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