Jonathan Horne wrote:
is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server?
or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same
machine?
Yes. Just slice up your disk and use one of the extra slices to install
your other version. AFAIK, you need one slice per system because you
can only boot from the "a" partition is a slice. You have to use a real
slice not a logical/extended one.
Or just get an extra disk and install extra system to that.
Of course, you can only *run* one at a time, but you can certainly share
user data between builds (though any binaries probably require compat
packages).
This is generally how I upgrade between major revisions. I have extra
/, /usr, /var and /usr/local (called /alt, /alt/var...) and I install
new version to the "alt" partitions. Then use boot manager to pick
which to boot. Once I am happy with the new version I either copy it
across to the original partitions or just boot the new partitions from
then on and use the old partitions as the "alt"s.
--Alex
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