On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:03:58PM +0200, Piotrek Kapczuk wrote: > Hi > > I have a new server to deploy and I don't want to wait unlit official > release. So I'd like to compile 3.9 stable from source and I've faced a > problem. > > I have a machine which runs 3.8-stable > I've wiped out /usr/src > then, as http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html says I did
No, you completely ignored the "Install or upgrade to closest available binary" step. You can't do that. If you had started from a 3.9-beta, you might have got lucky. But jumping from 3.8 to 3.9 is NOT an easy process, and is completely unsupported. This looks like it will be a particularly difficult jump to make this release (though, as I recall, that's been true for a LOT of releases lately). You can't just download a new release's source and build on an old release. Further, what happens if there is a critical security issue in 3.9-rel before 3.9 is officially released? -stable commits do NOT get made until 3.9 is official (hint: sendmail bug). Your choices: 1) Start with 3.8, and upgrade to 3.9 later (actually, pretty easy). 2) start with 3.9-current, and then jump to 4.0-stable in about seven months or so, when it becomes available. This could be either very easy or a pain in the butt, depending on how many additional packages you end up installing after first install. Nick.
