Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:06:53 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" <warner@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: RELEASE_6 -> RELEASE_8 Message-ID: <20110131095539.N39951@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> In-Reply-To: <20110130234533.5C86C94D3C0@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <20110130234533.5C86C94D3C0@drugs.dv.isc.org>
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Mark Andrews wrote: > > I was trying to upgrade a machine from RELEASE_6 (latest) > to RELEASE_8 (latest) via source. I was unable to get > make buildworld to complete. You need latest N to go to N+1, so a 6.4-RELEASE or RELENG_6 after that should be able to go to 7.x but not straight to 8. Multi-Release-Hop-Updates have been working once in a while in the past with other releases but were never officially supported. Not even a say 7.1 might be able to go to straight 8.x btw. Unfortunately UPDATING wasn't really updated in that regard for a while and might still say "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to current" in older branches; I know it was fixed in 9 for 8 in [1] as part of a large cleanup but I think a similar change never made it back to other stable branches. /bz [1] http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/UPDATING?revision=196789&view=markup -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! <ks> Going to jail sucks -- <bz> All my daemons like it! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails.html
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