From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 01:57:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2049316A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 01:57:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10ED443D3F for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 01:57:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 01F1B72DD4; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:57:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0CE372DCB; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:57:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:57:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Michael C. Cambria" In-Reply-To: <416467CC.2050506@fid4.com> Message-ID: <20041006185447.F82437@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <416467CC.2050506@fid4.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: build/install RELENG_5 from a 4.10 system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 01:57:34 -0000 On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Michael C. Cambria wrote: > Is it possible to build a RELENG_5 system on a 4.10 system? Yes -- read the instructions at the bottom of /usr/src/UPDATING beforehand, and follow the instructions VERY CAREFULLY or you'll end up with an unbootable system. > I've used new sources put in /home via cvsup to build slower systems and > Soekris boxes in the past. Setting DESTDIR and MAKEOBJDIEPREFIX puts > the results of installworld & buildworld someplace other than /usr/obj. > But I've only done this with something like 4.x-stable while my build > system ran 4.x-release. > Considering MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX sets the prefix for where OBJDIR get created, that make sense that setting it to something would move OBJDIR from /usr/obj. What were you expecting? :) There are also instructions for doing remote installs (i.e., installworld over NFS) at the bottom of UPDATING. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org