From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 9 6:25:46 2002 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 5500837B401 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 06:25:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta06ps.bigpond.com (mta06ps.bigpond.com [144.135.25.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083D043E4A for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 06:25:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaeljritchie@bigpond.com) Received: from Michaels-Laptop.bigpond.com ([144.135.25.72]) by mta06ps.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mta06ps May 23 2002 23:53:28) with SMTP id H5BC2N00.GSL; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 00:25:35 +1000 Received: from ppp481.sa.padsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.244.224]) by PSMAM02.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0n 74/8645642); 10 Nov 2002 00:25:35 Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20021109235251.00b7e2e0@mail.bigpond.com> X-Sender: michaeljritchie@mail.bigpond.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 23:55:18 +0930 To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , "Markus Landgren" From: Michael Ritchie Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.7-RELEASE Cc: In-Reply-To: <00b501c287fa$57c9c550$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20021109181410.01a5f338@mail.bigpond.com> <1036834039.359.18.camel@krell.telia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 Kevin / Markus: thanks, it's working like a charm...yay! The full source distribution wasn't installed when the system was put in place, so rather than wait for the entire tree to be downloaded by CVSUp, I used SysInstall to install the 4.6.2-RELEASE source tree, and CVSUpp'ed it to the latest (patched) release version. Thanks again, Michael At 08:14 AM 9/11/2002 -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: >From: "Markus Landgren" >Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.7-RELEASE > > > > On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 09:51, Michael Ritchie wrote: > > > Disclaimer: I am a newbie, so MAKE BACKUPS before following ANY of >my > > advice. > > > >Good advice, 'newbie' or not.... > > > I followed the handbook's instructions for -STABLE but replaced > > "RELENG_4" with "RELENG_4_7" in the cvsupfile, and successfully >ended up > > with 4.7-RELEASE-p1, the patched version of 4.7-RELEASE. > > > > If you for some reason need an unpatched 4.7-RELEASE, that is also > > possible. In that case you need another tag, which I have been told >is > > "RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE". Note: I have not tried that one myself, so >I am > > not sure if that is correct. > > > >It is..... > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.ht >ml >...though it seems unlikely you'd want to refuse the patch.... > >Kevin Kinsey >DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message