Re: Downgrading from -current to -release

From: Lowell Gilbert (lgusenet_at_be-well.ilk.org)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:20:49 GMT

Bernard El-Hagin <bernard.el-haginDODGE_THIS@lido-tech.net> writes:

> Is it possible to downgrade a -current installation to, say, 5.2 Release
> by appropriately modifying the supfile and running cvsup? Or will this
> ruin my existing installation?

If your -CURRENT installation is from before the actual release of
5.2, then it should work quite well. [Which is very possible, since
5.2 hasn't been released yet.] Going backwards isn't officially
supported, but most people with the technical knowledge to run
-CURRENT should be able to make it work. 

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