Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 00:29:39 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@TheWorld.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Upgrading 5.3 > 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic Message-ID: <20051207052938.GA85282@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200512070424.XAA14988905@shell.TheWorld.com> References: <200512051518.43896.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <20051206163732.K60888@znfgre.qbhto.arg> <4606.69.116.19.99.1133916617.squirrel@www.rfnj.org> <200512070424.XAA14988905@shell.TheWorld.com>
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--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:24:31PM -0500, Kenneth W Cochran wrote: > >Certainly better documentation for the upgrade path between 5.3 and 6.0 = would > >have saved me a h*** of a lot of time.. but there it is.. live does not = hand > >out many A++s >=20 > I would guess that it says 5.3 instead of 5.4 due to oversight, > e.g. it was written/documented/recommended before 5.4 was out. > Maybe that's (part of) the basis for the Handbook's recommendation of > reading the -stable list if you indeed want to track past -RELEASE. :) I've corrected myself already in previous replies, but to try and put this to rest, I was mistaken when I said that 5.4 was required. Others have already confirmed that clean 5.3 installations may be directly upgraded to 6.0. The problem experienced by the OP must have had another cause. The upgrade to 5.4 may have corrected it for him. Kris --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDlnNCWry0BWjoQKURAmMSAKC47zJr1KOiX3MGfd/AskQw5HS6iACggEVb Jo+3xZppM+iKb7jDs1Prv10= =m82/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--
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