From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 23 09:03:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D2A116A417 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:03:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from netslists@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.156]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E69F013C459 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:03:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from netslists@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so2642394fgg.35 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:03:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=V5B7wx5HdQ/Z77jwDhumd6E6UyV1G3VM0HwqCdpHT5A=; b=X1qnaNXsCczRUkC9iZp1k1eIuZa/PlQ7R4sfeVkilWqrXR936Sy9AdLLWWgyncTKe+fH2NYwnoB81fKzHNDwjzGB+Qv9igW7VE1YZ+Jy8CubS+4+CYFjCRztm1MVr19qyYaboYt6RJwhcb/J+kwe3o96lgc5MsKLhhtXUiDiU6Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=MO1qeBpQx+aIw+BFHaU+xjqXClIKv2H9I2vBlS05p6CeXjYvC8jaBvEQktPBKgC5qDALY6td3NH2tpNRtwclAQnHNiKaPios/GABFRzH9s6WZZq70+Mlo6lQoO/rS+wmvqCRWSYJBoLTOZ65NxUOUUw+YpsGE+N8W71+FxIjWcg= Received: by 10.86.89.4 with SMTP id m4mr8674273fgb.45.1201079031898; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:03:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.9.8? ( [91.135.49.10]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l12sm10913807fgb.8.2008.01.23.01.03.50 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:03:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <479702F4.1080709@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:03:48 +0100 From: Sten Daniel Soersdal User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" References: <4795F37B.4040908@gmail.com> <47960812.8070101@highperformance.net> In-Reply-To: <47960812.8070101@highperformance.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Updating older 7.0 to newer sources, local buildworld problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:03:53 -0000 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