Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:26:16 -0500 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: "'Marco Greene'" <mwegreene@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Patches &Upgrades Message-ID: <000a01c39341$70a9a830$04fea8c0@moe> In-Reply-To: <BAY8-F17Zf4zydiVvqX000051a4@hotmail.com>
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> I have tried: > cvsup...make buildworld...make installworld. Took a long > time but it seemed > to work...however, when I rebooted, still said 4.2...I was > expecting 4.8. > How can you confirm current version of FreeBSD. Shouldn't it say 4.8? Everyone here knows that I'm no expert on anything, but I bet you're not using RELENG_4_8 in your cvsupfile. Here's mine: *default host=cvsup11.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_4_8 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all *default tag=. ports-all doc-all > Now about patches... > You don't seem to download patches the way you do for Solaris > or AIX. It > looks like you have to do the cvsup...make buildworld and > make installworld > thing. This seems like a risky way to do patch installs. Are there > pre-packaged binary patches available and if so what is the patching > mechanism that should be used. If you'll subscribe to freebsd-announce (I think), you'll get announcments of patches along with instructions on how to install them. I could be wrong on the proper mailing list. Check http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfohelp
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