Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 15:30:51 +0100 (BST) From: David Marsh <drmarsh@bigfoot.com> To: FreeBSD-Stable LIST <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: make buildworld errors when upgrading 3.2R -> RELENG_3 Message-ID: <XFMail.001008153051.drmarsh@bigfoot.com>
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On 07-Oct-00 David Marsh wrote: > > Following advice given a few days ago, I changed from trying to upgrade > from 3.2R to RELENG_4 in one fell swoop, and and now first trying to > upgrade to RELENG_3 before making the leap to RELENG_4. > > I have now cvsup'ed the RELENG_3 sources, and am now attempting to make > buildworld. [details of my various attempts to buildworld failing..] Weird. I gave buildworld one last try, as I said I would.. This time I dropped down into single-user mode. (The Handbook did say that it was possible to do the 'buildworld' part while the system was running as normal [1], but I thought I might as well play safe this time). [1] I thought that was the whole point of usenet: so that you could catch up with your news while a major compile was chugging along in the background.. ;-) What do you know, this time it worked OK! Rather strange that my system can't cope with a huge compile if other things are happening, but there you go.. So I have now managed to upgrade to 3.5-STABLE, part one of my plan has worked.. Now for the hard(er) part, transitioning to 4.x.. I have no particular desire to be right on the cutting-edge (and it seems from the list that a few things have happened to -stable recently that have given some people some problems). Should I just cvsup up to 4.1-RELEASE, or is it reasonably straightforward/safe to upgrade right up to 4.x-STABLE? My main reason for upgrading (other than just to keep /reasonably/ up to date, is to get my soundcard working (SoundBlaster 16 PCI) and I understand that 4.x has the drivers to do this.. David. -- David Marsh,drmarsh@bigfoot.com | http://www.viewport.co.uk/ | Glasgow, Scotland. | If urgent, phone: +44 77-121-848-90 | >Trim quotes b4 replying; Quote 1st, reply 2nd; Ask b4 attaching files< To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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