Re: RELENG_6_2 broken on latest -HEAD

From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 15:13:01 +0100
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 09:52 -0400, Wesley Shields wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 04:23:53PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > On 2007-05-24 15:52, LI Xin <delphij_at_delphij.net> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > It seems that we can not build RELENG_6_2 world with -HEAD userland
> > > anymore, after the gcc upgrade.  So the only way to build RELENG_6_2
> > > releases is to create a chroot environment for now?
> > 
> > I think this was never really ``supported''.  It may work, but if it
> > breaks nobody is going to fix it.
> > 
> > What *is* supported and should always work is building CURRENT on the
> > latest RELENG_X branch.  But what you are doing is the reverse...
> 
> The problem is that running a tinderbox on a CURRENT host and building a
> RELENG_X branch is often done.  I understand it's not really supported
> but it is a very nice thing to be able to do.
> 
> Currently, a RELENG_6 build for a ports tinderbox running on CURRENT is
> broken. :(
> 
> -- WXS
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Isn't it the other way around? You couldn't have a tinderbox building
for 7.0 running on a 6.2 host, but its common practise to have tinderbox
build 6.2 packages whilst running on 7.0 host.

Received on Thu May 24 2007 - 12:47:43 UTC

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