Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:14:05 -0500 From: The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: kstewart@urx.com, Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>, Torben Baecker <torben.b@gmx.net>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New KERNCONF option Message-ID: <3AB1930D.B38B78E4@babbleon.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103150836050.10995-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net> <3AB0C76D.D7FD7322@urx.com> <3AB187C0.88B6D724@babbleon.org> <20010315194351.A8706@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Yes, I'm sure that's it. Another problem with coming from the Linux
world and getting used to the new way of doing things.
The handbook suggested that the easiest way to cvsup was to use
# pkg_add -f \
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/cvsupit.tgz
So I did that. It had choices for what to load; I was only having
trouble with kernel stuff (devices and networking), so I only checked
that. Seemed quite logical, and the handbook doesn't say you can't.
In fact the section of the handbook at
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html
says quite explicitly that you can get only the parts you want.
Might be a good clarification for the handbook that though it's a nice
interface one isn't allowed to actually choose any old options after
bringing it up.
Anyway, I don't doubt that this is the problem. Thanks.
Of course, if I'm going to do *that* then I probably want to take that
"back everything up" a little more seriously. This is going to do like
an entire system upgrade, right? Will it know how to preserve all the
/etc files and all that that I've customized?
I'm thinking that I'm walking into something a bit more complex than I
had understood . . .
Am I reading the wrong section of the handbook?
Should I be reading something else entirely?
Brooks Davis wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:25:52PM -0500, The Babbler wrote:
> >
> > Hmmm . . . I'm doing my first every buildworld stuff, having just
> > grabbed the kernel with cvsup for the first time. It's cool I stumbled
> > across this thread . . . .
> >
> > Where do I get a current /usr/src/UPDATING?
> >
> > The one I have seems to still be the one from when I installed
> > 4.2-RELEASE, so it has directions which are (apparently) obsolete.
> >
> > Wouldn't it make more sense for a kernel "cvsup" to go ahead and update
> > the /usr/src/UPDATING file, since the FreeBSD handbook says to read that
> > for up-to-date directions on building the kernel?
>
> Wait a minute here. Are you saying you only cvsup'd the kernel? You
> aren't allowed to do that. You must update all of your src tree at
> once, nothing else is supported. This would certaintly go a long way
> towards explaining why you are having trouble.
>
> -- Brooks
>
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