From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 8:40: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from PHSEXCHICO2.Partners.org (phsexchico2.partners.org [170.223.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B788B37B40A for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 08:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by phsexchico2.partners.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <2ZZZSY9P>; Wed, 29 May 2002 11:39:45 -0400 Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1AD7@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> From: "Morse, Richard E." To: 'Kirk Strauser' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Updating question (yes, I know that this has been rehashed ma ny t imes...) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 11:39:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kirk Strauser [mailto:kirk@strauser.com] wrote: > From /usr/src/UPDATING: > > To update from 4.0-RELEASE or later to the most current > 4.x-STABLE > ---------- > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > reboot (in single user) > make installworld > mergemaster > reboot Hmmm.... I read /usr/src/UPDATING. My copy only says that I should run "make world" (except when it doesn't work). I'm tracking RELENG_4_5 -- could that have a less up-to-date /usr/src/UPDATING? Thanks for posting the correct instructions -- it is much clearer than in the handbook... Ricky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message