from 5.4-PRERELEASE -> 5.3-RELEASE-p5 error?

[Bashar]

Doug White wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Bashar wrote:
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>>>>first i ran RELENG_5 and when i got the 5.4-PRERELEASE (which
>>>>incompatible with cPanel.net software) i had to run cvsup with RELENG_5_3
>>>>after than i started getting those errors
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>>>You're leaving out important details, like what you did after you cvsup'd.
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>>the usual ,cvsup'ed then cd /usr/src && make buildworld && make
>>installworld && cd /sys/i386/conf && config mykernel && cd
>>../compile/mykernel && make depend && make && make install && reboot
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>This is probably where you went wrong. By not using buildkernel it may
>have still compiled against the -PRERELEASE headers.
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>I'm not sure how to fix you at this point ... If cpanel has hardcoded
>assumptions about the release name you may need to fake it out by hacking
>src/sys/conf/newvers.sh to rename it back to "5.3-STABLE" and then be
>caereful to repply the fix after every cvsup.  However I'm not sure how to
>get your world back to a functional state without reinstalling...
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>You should also file a bug with the cpanel folks and have them handle the
>name changes more gracefully.
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i have already report it to cPanel to look into it, but the scenario 
here is i'm going from 5.4-PRERELEASE back to 5.3-RELEASE which is from 
RELENG_5 -> RELENG_5_3 and the errors i originally posted started to happen.

btw doesn't config -r mykernel would remove all files including headers?