From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 19 16:06:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B75D16A524 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:06:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E71743D2D for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:06:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bees.msu@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id c16so21263rne for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 08:06:16 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=cEFSeTRc63ev+u4R8u2BJZNvRQEiUQk/WmjuZxa6XkWJU8h90TWkhQTVAkOgE/xyNsRXVRx5BJd5FRFuUusWzi+kYZTENvD1y27rsNsso2lpsk36U/ucgFf+6mdc49jmXxLPBLwDBtCQ7QNtnr+4SrV/pJW61bfInAmiyJLt6eM= Received: by 10.38.81.10 with SMTP id e10mr84789rnb; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 08:06:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.12.56 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 08:06:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:06:16 -0500 From: Zachary Huang To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20041218201750.3FA8216A4D3@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041218201750.3FA8216A4D3@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 83, Issue 24 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Zachary Huang List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:06:18 -0000 Joshua, Thanks for your answers. > It sounds like your src tree needs to be cleaned up (# rm -rf /usr/src/*) is this safe to do? do I clean up it before 'upgrading' to my 4.2 CD? perhaps safer to rename it first? > and that you should read the Handbook chapter on using cvsup, write > yourself a src-supfile, or use one of the examples, and then follow the > well-documented procedure for upgrading your system from source. I read the book, did a cvsup to 4.2 (hoping to overwite the 'new' stuff with the original stuff), tried make buildworld, same error. Today I rebooted with a 4.2 CD, did 'upgrade', but it refuses to upgrade /usr/src (as usual), now I can ssh to the host, but ftp does not work, I got: Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> ls 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||49153|) I now know how to get cvsup to work, but still I do not understand the difference between cvsup vs. buying a CD. Is buying a CD easier to upgrade to a new release? happy holidays, Zach