From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 21:21:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77C137B404 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 21:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE5543FB1 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 21:21:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h4M4Ln6n094100; Wed, 21 May 2003 23:21:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 23:21:49 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Ralph Dratman Message-ID: <20030522042149.GB13024@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030522002446.GE99691@webserver.get-linux.org> <20030522014859.GA13024@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-BETA X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libintl.so.2 problems (REPOST: wrong subject and recipient) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 04:21:51 -0000 In the last episode (May 21), Ralph Dratman said: > Your basic idea (fiddle with the source) worked, and now wget is working! Great! > Any advice on getting a live server, now running 4.2, up to 4.7 or 4.8? Two ways. Either one you choose, make sure you have a backup in case something happens. Binary: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/4-STABLE/installation/i386/upgrading.html You basically just boot the 4.8 install CD, and pick Upgrade. It'll install new binaries, but keep most of /etc as-is. You'll probably want to print out the output of "mount" so you can enter the correct filesystem names in the fdisk screen (it doesn't read your existing fstab). Source: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html This method requires you to pull the entire source tree and build all the binaries on your local system. Any reasonably-new machine should be able to build world in a couple hours. After installation, you run mergemaster to update /etc. Has the advantage that you can keep local source mods for binaries, and you can track -STABLE instead of waiting for RELEASEs. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com