Re: 5.3-RELEASE TODO

Quoting Scott Long <scottl_at_freebsd.org>:

> Kenneth Culver wrote:
>
>> Quoting Scott Long <scottl_at_freebsd.org>:
>>
>>> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 01:43:54 -0600 (MDT)
>>>> Scott Long <scottl_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> | Source upgrade     | Not done    | David Schultz | problematic. 
>>>>> The    |
>>>>> | incompatibility    |             |               | 5.3 world 
>>>>> sources   |
>>>>> |                    |             |               | must be 
>>>>> buildable   |
>>>>> |                    |             |               | and 
>>>>> installable     |
>>>>> |                    |             |               | from a 5.2.1 
>>>>>        |
>>>>> |                    |             |               | system.      
>>>>>        |
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Should they not also be buildable and installable from a 4.10 
>>>> or 4.11 system
>>>> in order to preserve the -stable upgrade route ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> This would be good, yes, but there are so many other gotchas with that
>>> upgrade path that I don't consider it a show-stopper for it not to work.
>>> Once the 5.2 -> 5.3 path is fixed, then we can focus on 4.x -> 5.3 path.
>>>
>>> Scott
>>
>>
>> Just to let people know, I recently installed from 5.2.1, then updated to
>> -CURRENT via source without a single problem. So what's not working here?
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>
> Hmm, maybe I'm mis-informed then.  I thought that
> snapshots.jp.freebsd.org was having problems building the 5.2-CURRENT
> sources because it's world was too old, and that this pointed to a
> source upgrade problem.  I guess we need clarification here.  David?
>
> Scott

I've actually done this 2 or 3 times in the last week or 2 on a few different
computers, so unless a recent commit broke something, it should still be ok.

Ken