It goes without saying that this didn't go anywhere near as smoothly as I hoped it would. My attention to detail was less than perfect. Sorry for the pain I've caused. A big thanks to those who've put work into fixing the mistakes, particularly jhb, kib and csjp. What I'd like right now is for anybody with unresolved problems to write a summry and email it to me so I can see what needs to be addressed. I know that there are issues with upgrading from 6.X (where .X isn't the most recent on RELENG6). I'll need help from someone with an old 6.2 box (say) to test out the builds. I have no hardware to run an old version of 6 on. -- John Birrell
John Birrell wrote:> I know that there are issues with upgrading from 6.X (where .X isn't the > most recent on RELENG6). I'll need help from someone with an old 6.2 > box (say) to test out the builds. I have no hardware to run an old version > of 6 on.I've got a 6.2 box that needs upgrading anyway, so I'll bite. The install was from an ISO image and has never been upgraded, so I know it's not most recent. Do you simply want an upgrade to RELENG_7 and then a report of any breakage? Steve
On Thursday 28 August 2008 06:36:30 pm John Birrell wrote:> It goes without saying that this didn't go anywhere near as smoothly as > I hoped it would. My attention to detail was less than perfect. Sorry > for the pain I've caused. > > A big thanks to those who've put work into fixing the mistakes, particularly > jhb, kib and csjp. > > What I'd like right now is for anybody with unresolved problems to write > a summry and email it to me so I can see what needs to be addressed. > > I know that there are issues with upgrading from 6.X (where .X isn't the > most recent on RELENG6). I'll need help from someone with an old 6.2 > box (say) to test out the builds. I have no hardware to run an old version > of 6 on.The issue with upgrades is that the dtrace_tools can't be built on 6.x systems during the bootstrap stage because 6.x doesn't have libelf. It may be that you need to bootstrap libelf differently than you are currently doing now. I can reproduce this easily on 6.3-RELEASE box. I would ask ru@ how best to handle this case. -- John Baldwin
John Birrell wrote:> I know that there are issues with upgrading from 6.X (where .X isn't the > most recent on RELENG6). I'll need help from someone with an old 6.2 > box (say) to test out the builds. I have no hardware to run an old version > of 6 on.This is most likely not exactly what you are after, but: Earlier in the week I put a message to -stable asking how to upgrade a minimal install of a system that runs entirely from USB key. This key was running 6.2. Using a host build machine running 7.0, setting DESTDIR accordingly, and configuring numerous NO_* in /etc/make.conf, I was not only able to achieve my minimal install using buildworld etc process, I was able to upgrade it to stable sources from this morning successfully. I'm now off to upgrade a box that is actually _running_ 6.2, and I'll report back with any details. Steve