From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 28 14:45:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.pa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.pa.home.com [24.12.106.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE3ED37B93B for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 14:45:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from qfreaki@home.com) Received: from quedawg.com ([24.8.210.114]) by mail.rdc2.pa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20000528214518.NVCL10629.mail.rdc2.pa.home.com@quedawg.com> for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 14:45:18 -0700 Received: by quedawg.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 8B942442; Sun, 28 May 2000 17:46:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 17:46:51 -0400 From: Mbwa To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE to 4.0-STABLE upgrade Message-ID: <20000528174651.A71174@ol-arem.quedawg.com> References: <20000528035005.32721.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000528080156.B12786@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000528080156.B12786@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>; from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu on Sun, May 28, 2000 at 08:01:57AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 08:01:57AM +0200, Szilveszter Adam wrote: > Hello! > > On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 11:50:05PM -0400, John Daniels wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I just did an upgrade to STABLE. I just wanted to check what I did was OK. > > > > First, the handbook says to do the following order: > > 1. backup > > 2. CVsup > > 3. check /etc/make.conf and /etc/group > > 4. drop to single-user mode > > 5. remove /usr/obj > > 6. make world (or make buildworld and make installworld) > > 7. update /etc, /dev, (and optionally /stand) > > 8. compile and install a new kernel > > 9. reboot (with fastboot) > > Have you also upgraded the Handbook?:-) It is now possible by going to an > ftp mirror site and cd-ing to /pub/FreeBSD/doc// and > downloading > the docs in the wanted format. I only ask this because the new docs should > have pointers to mergemaster... I just downloaded the book.html.zip from ftp.freebsd.org and I didn't notice any reference to mergemaster. Where can I get more info regarding this utility thanks, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message