From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 21:16:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF4C37B409 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 21:16:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4G4GCZk006799; Thu, 16 May 2002 16:16:12 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4G4GCox006798; Thu, 16 May 2002 16:16:12 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 16:16:12 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Dale Morris Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP question (newbie) Message-ID: <20020516161612.A6744@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020515210541.A10759@well.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020515210541.A10759@well.com>; from dlm@well.com on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:05:42PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:05:42PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm pretty new to the cvsup system. I've got cvsup working and > downloading ports just fine, but I realized that I have upgraded my > machine to current.. I just copied the ports-cvsup file to /root/ and > then ran the command, afterwards doing a portupgrade -a. Pretty slick, > but now I think I want to get back to stable. I have changed the supfile > to read RELENG_4 in order to get the stable ports. When I have them all > downloaded can I just do a portupgrade -a and everything will revert > back? Portupgrade has nothing to do with the version of FreeBSD running on your system. If you want to downgrade from -current to -stable, you'll have to go the buildworld, kernel, installworld and mergemaster method described in the Handbook. Are you sure you're running -current? What does "uname -v" report? -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities are seldom labeled To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message