Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:03:48 +0100 From: Sten Daniel Soersdal <netslists@gmail.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating older 7.0 to newer sources, local buildworld problems Message-ID: <479702F4.1080709@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47960812.8070101@highperformance.net> References: <4795F37B.4040908@gmail.com> <47960812.8070101@highperformance.net>
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Jason C. Wells wrote: > Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: >> I'm having troubles updating my buildworld and i've had troubles >> narrowing it down on google. >> >> My question is: >> >> Is there any way i could update the system in the state it is now? >> (Preferably without reinstalling the entire system from scratch.) >> >> PS. I've heard about freebsd-update but never got it to work (see below) > > I have never used freebsd-update so I can't comment there. I think > that's a binary update though. You are trying to build from source. > > I would use cvsup to update my source tree to 7.0-RELEASE. Since your > initial sources are before Sep 19, they are not 7.0-RELEASE. Read about > cvsup in the handbook. Look at the example files in > /usr/share/examples/cvsup. The I would run 'make clean' and 'make > buildworld' all over again. > > Except for creating a newfs and tweaking files in /etc, building the > world is pretty much installing the entire system. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html > > Be careful about the cvs tag that you use. RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE is what > you will eventually want. If that tag has not yet been set by releng@, > then you will delete your sources. I recommend '-d 20' with cvsup to > protect yourself from accidental deletions. RELENG_7 is probably what > you want until 7.0 is actually released. > Thank you, i appreciate your time. At the bottom of the (messy) mail i sent there was the error i get from building sources. I think it's the same error, no matter what version of sources i download. Could it have any relations to any compiler version upgrades done in 7.0 (not by me but by freebsd project)? -- Sten Daniel Soersdal
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