Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 23:07:03 +0800 From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> To: "Tom Evans" <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org>, LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RELENG_6_2 broken on latest -HEAD Message-ID: <6eb82e0705240807o4ed9ca62gd43d546abc1fd994@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1180015981.9846.26.camel@zoot.mintel.co.uk> References: <46554442.7070502@delphij.net> <20070524132352.GC2803@kobe.laptop> <20070524135214.GB45539@atarininja.org> <1180015981.9846.26.camel@zoot.mintel.co.uk>
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On 5/24/07, Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 09:52 -0400, Wesley Shields wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 04:23:53PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > On 2007-05-24 15:52, LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > It seems that we can not build RELENG_6_2 world with -HEAD userland > > > > anymore, after the gcc upgrade. So the only way to build RELENG_6_2 > > > > releases is to create a chroot environment for now? > > > > > > I think this was never really ``supported''. It may work, but if it > > > breaks nobody is going to fix it. > > > > > > What *is* supported and should always work is building CURRENT on the > > > latest RELENG_X branch. But what you are doing is the reverse... > > > > The problem is that running a tinderbox on a CURRENT host and building a > > RELENG_X branch is often done. I understand it's not really supported > > but it is a very nice thing to be able to do. > > > > Currently, a RELENG_6 build for a ports tinderbox running on CURRENT is > > broken. :( > > > > -- WXS > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Isn't it the other way around? You couldn't have a tinderbox building > for 7.0 running on a 6.2 host, but its common practise to have tinderbox > build 6.2 packages whilst running on 7.0 host. It's never supported to run newer userland on older kernel (see archive on current@ few days ago from me). In fact, after recent thread library changes in current, you can not run 7.0 userland on a 6.2 kernel. Regards, Rong-En Fan
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