Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:20:31 -0700 From: "T.J. Kniveton" <TJ@Kniveton.com> To: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: From -current to -stable? Message-ID: <3B37AB1F.1515319A@Kniveton.com> References: <3B326EFD.AE1D558D@Kniveton.com> <20010625233227.A1951@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
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Valentin Nechayev wrote:
>
> Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 15:02:37, TJ (T.J. Kniveton) wrote about "From -current to -stable?":
>
> > I followed the directions on the freebsd web site to grab the latest
> > -stable sources, but it looks like somehow I got the -current sources,
> > built and installed them (doh!).
> >
> > Everything is working ok, but this is my development laptop, and it
> > would probably be wiser to track -stable so that things will still work.
> > I have grabbed the RELENG_4 source, but it is dying at unctrl.h. Is
> > there any way to go backward from an installed current build, to stable?
>
> 1. Do binary install.
Of 4.3-release, or of 4-stable (where would I get the binaries from, are
they on a freebsd host)?
> 2. Make world with includes from RELENG_4. I successfully did it
> with /usr/include copied from another 4-stable host. Maxim Sobolev
> recommended to do `make includes' before `make buildworld'.
> A rumour was that it is already fixed (building doesn't depend on host
> includes) but...
I don't think it's totally fixed, or else I should be able to just do a
buildworld now. I have the 5-current /usr/include, but 4-stable build
fails. I might just try and fix the build process to avoid step 1.
>
> /netch
Thanks!
--
T.J. Kniveton
Communications Systems Lab
Nokia Research Center
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