Re: HEADS UP! Upcoming work in HEAD and other events!

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:12:09AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     AS OF NOW, ON HEAD, BUILDWORLD-BASED BOOTSTRAPPING FROM FreeBSD-4.x WILL
>     NO LONGER BE SUPPORTED.
> 
> 	The time has come to break away from our FreeBSD-4.x bootstrapping 
> 	feature.  That is, to no longer try to make our buildworld operate
> 	under FreeBSD-4.x for bootstrapping purposes.  It is simply becoming
> 	too much of a chore to keep adding hacks to the sourcebase to make
> 	the build work under FreeBSD.
> 
> 	There will be two ways to upgrade from FreeBSD-4.x:
> 
> 	* First, build the 1.2.x release on 4.x, install, then upgrade to 
> 	  Preview (or stick with the release).

I should add that the same procedure _might_ get necessary for older
DragonFly system soon too. If you have such a system and buildworld
fails, please update to the release branch first.

Joerg