Re: Can't build -current on 6?

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 05:13:21AM +0000, John Birrell wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 09:44:23PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > Looks like there are some dependency issues with
> > some of the cddl stuff.  The following is from trying
> > to build yesterday's -current on a system with a 6.3
> > kernel and a mostly 6.0 userland.  This worked not very
> > long ago.
> 
> The reason why it worked not that long ago is that RELENG_7
> hadn't deviated much from RELENG_6.
> 
> It's hard to make any arbitrary FreeBSD version upgrade to current.
> A long time ago we made the decision that we'd support upgrades from
> just the previous branch to current.
> 
> So, the supported way to upgrade from 6.X is to upgrade to RELENG_7
> and from there you should be able to upgrade to current.
> 
True.


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