Compiling 4-RELEASE on 5-STABLE

[Subhro]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:11:05 -0400 (EDT), John Gillis <zefram at zefram.net> wrote:
>        My apologies if this has already been asked. I'd like to upgrade
> my non-production machines to 5.3

Nice idea

 once it is released, however I'd like
> the production servers to lag behind once I make sure everything is
> working right.

If everything is not working right, then 5.3 wouldnever be tagged
STABLE. This is not Windows.

>        This might mean that my production servers would be running 4.x
> for the next few months. Compiling world, the kernel, and ports is done on
> non-production machines however, with the ports being packaged and
> installed on the servers and /usr/src being NFS mounted from a
> non-production machine.

4.10-R uses gcc 2.95 and 5.3 uses gcc 3.4. The binaries compiled with
the later are not backward compatble.

>        After installing 5.3 on the non-production machines, I'd like to
> track the 4-RELEASEs into another directory, say /usr/src.4 while tracking
> 5.3-RELEASE in /usr/src.

This can be done without trouble. man cvsup.

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Regards
S.

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