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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:8807 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1962 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: [q] Why (Free & Net)BSD use different binaries? Date: 16 Feb 1994 19:00:51 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 30 Message-ID: <JKH.94Feb16190051@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <CL7tvx.A74@news.cis.umn.edu> <2jotfv$irj@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <JKH.94Feb15192206@whisker.hubbard.ie> <1994Feb16.095356.4136@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: eloy@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl's message of Wed, 16 Feb 1994 09:53:56 GMT In article <1994Feb16.095356.4136@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl> eloy@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl (Eloy Domingos) writes: I found this out last night: I just got a binary distribution (1.0) of FreeBSD and wanted to upgrade using the source of FreeBSD-current. It was not as easy as I expected to: I started with 'make bootstrapld' but the new 'as' came in place, in a format not recognized by the old kernel. Pity you didn't contact us first - we have a "checklist" that going down in the proper order will allow you to upgrade rather painlessly from 1.0 to -current! Perhaps it's time to post it, though the 1.1 BETA is so close now (it's a bit late, actually, having been scheduled for last week) that I'd tend to recommend becoming a BETA site over going "current" (contact me with details of your machine configuration and your general willingness to spam yourself if you'd like to be a 1.1 BETA site!) It would be nice if of FreeBSD-current not only a sourcetree would be exported but also a binary distribution since this upgrade is not easy, but the improvements (shared libraries) are very worthwhile. Well, the unfortunate thing about binary releases is that they're a pain to put together, so we tend to only do so once every 3 months or so when we roll a "release". When 1.1 is released, it will indeed be a full source and binary distribution, as you'd expect. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Electric Bivalves Anonymous On the net, no one can hear you scream.