Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:46:45 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org> To: Thomas Stephens <tas@stephens.org> Cc: butthead@icb.spb.su, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, chris@calldei.com Subject: Re: ps report Message-ID: <19990413104645.L45737@holly.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <199904131538.QAA04349@stephens.ml.org>; from Thomas Stephens on Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 08:38:43AM -0700 References: <19990413010803.B2189@holly.dyndns.org> <199904131538.QAA04349@stephens.ml.org>
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On Tue, Apr 13, 1999, Thomas Stephens wrote:
> Chris Costello wrote:
> > Unlike Linux, you have to upgrade the whole system to -CURRENT
> >with FreeBSD. You need to read the "staying current with
> >FreeBSD" section of the handbook. Knowledge of these things are
> >important if you plan on using -CURRENT. You'll be seeing a lot
> >of changes when/if you do fully upgrade to the -CURRENT source
> >tree.
>
> Even though the Linux people try to keep the kernel interfaces stable
> (so you can incrementally upgrade the kernel without breaking userland),
> the major distributors still advise against using newer (or older!)
> kernels with their userland packages.
>
> Upgrading only a kernel is a bit like replacing a car's engine with one
> from a newer model. If it's similar enough that it will fit, and you
> can attach everything properly, it'll probably work (for the most part).
> Nevertheless, you're much better off simply upgrading to the newer
> model (and with FreeBSD, the new model's free :-) ).
Not quite, unless the engine requires a different sized mount
thingies, and is made out of a different material.
> Upgrading the whole system is obviously more difficult than just
> upgrading the kernel, but the result is better, and it is amazingly easy
> to upgrade FreeBSD (at least in my experience).
Upgrading FreeBSD's userland and kernel are amazingly easy.
cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup
cvsup -h cvsup.freebsd.org st{andard,able}-supfile
cd /usr/src
make world
cd /usr/src/sys/[platform]/conf
[edit kernel config]
config kernel
cd /sys/compile/kernel
make depend all && make install
> If you've got enough space, I suggest you install the whole source tree
> via cvsup (take a look at /usr/ports/net/cvsupd-bin, /etc/make.conf and
> the cvsup examples pointed to by the latter). After you've set
> everything up, you can cd to /usr/src and type `make update' to bring
> your source tree up to date. The next step is to build the world, which
> is explained in the following document:
>
> http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html
>
> Good luck!
>
> Thomas Stephens
> tas@stephens.org
>
--
Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
If I had it all to do over again, I'd spell creat with an "e". - Kernighan
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