From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 17 19:29:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21950 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:29:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.hcol.net (ns.hcol.net [205.152.99.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21942 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from val@ns.hcol.net) Received: from localhost (val@localhost) by ns.hcol.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id VAA11037 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 21:29:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 21:29:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Val To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: cvsup vs /stand/sysinstall Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a question: one can use cvsup to download latest source code and then compile to upgrade the freebsd version. one can use /stand/sysinstall change the options to have the next release and tell it to download binaries/source/whatever distributions. So my questions is, what are the disadvantages and advantages of one method over the other that i might be missing? well i have one for each of the method already figured out: 1) cvsup download only changes to source, not the complete source right? 2) /stand/sysinstall does not require make world (very time consuming). any others? TIA. Val. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message