Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:56:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Gustavo Vieira G C Rios <grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: keeping updated with FreeBSD (some help please) Message-ID: <19981224115605.A12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpaf0ex3we.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 04:40:49PM %2B0100 References: <3680F56B.128CBDDF@netshell.vicosa.com.br> <xzpaf0ex3we.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Wednesday, 23 December 1998 at 16:40:49 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > [moved to -questions] > > Gustavo Vieira G C Rios <grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br> writes: >> Can anyone do any comments about this supfile? >> I am beginning with FreeBSD, so i just wanna update my 2.2.7 Release to >> 3.0.0! All i need do is to update my /usr/src, right? and "make world" >> right ? > > No, you need to convert from aout to Elf, so it's a little more > complicated. In fact, it's complicated enough that I'd recommend doing > a fresh install of 3.0 if that is at all possible for you. You don't *have* to upgrade to elf. I'm still running a.out on this machine. I'll change when the dust has settled on the changes to the bootstraps. >> my supfile is: >> *default tag=RELENG_3_0_0_RELEASE >> *default hosts=cvsup.internat.FreeBSD.ORG >> *default prefix=/usr >> *defatul base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup >> *default release=cvs delete user-rel-suffix compress >> src-all >> doc-all >> cvs-crypto > > I'd use: > > *default host=cvsup.internat.FreeBSD.org Do you? I don't believe this is a good idea. > *default base=/usr prefix=/usr I don't think it's a good idea to put the cvs housekeeping files in /usr. That's one of the things I pointed out in his last version, and I think that /usr/local/etc/cvsup makes more sense. > In any case, there's no reason not to go all the way and cvsup the > most recent -current (it's pretty stable these days); if you want to > do that, just change 'tag=RELENG_3_0_0_RELEASE' to 'tag=.' (in that > case you can remove the 'tag=.' on the doc-all and ports-all lines) Yes, I forgot this in my last reply. 3.0-RELEASE was more a proof of concept than a real release, and it's not what you'd want now. If you *do* get -CURRENT, of course, make sure to subscribe to the FreeBSD-current mailing list; otherwise you have a number of superb opportunities for shooting yourself in the foot. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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