From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 04:46:23 2003 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 CE16716A4B3 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 04:46:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de (antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de [134.102.176.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E0B44017 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 04:46:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de) Received: from taipeh.ant.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.176.3] helo=ant.uni-bremen.de ident=rebehn) by antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A2867-000FT3-Us; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:46:19 +0200 Message-ID: <3F71840B.5000102@ant.uni-bremen.de> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:46:19 +0200 From: Heinrich Rebehn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <20030923172654.GA4981@silvertree.org> <20030923214255.GC76632@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030923214255.GC76632@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.9 CVS vs. binary? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:46:23 -0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:26:54AM -0700, Scott Schappell wrote: > >>It seems that 4.9 is rapidly on its way to becoming RELEASE, which is a good >>thing. I'm currently running 4.8-p3 on my production server, and I don't >>have a spare to build then move over, so it will be an in place upgrade. >> >>Which upgrade path would be the best? CVS or installing from a binary ISO >>CD? >> >>If CVS, I'm assuming I need to add *default tag=RELENG_4_9 when it's >>released to my cvsup file to grab it, or do I need to start tracking >>stable RELENG_4? >> >>My hunch is CVS will be the better way to do it, and the last time I tried >>upgrading the system with a binary, it exploded (learned then don't do a >>binary upgrade when it's running the kernel and multiuser, thank god for >>backups). >> >>What is the recommendation of folks on this list? > > > To go from RELENG_4_8 to RELENG_4_9, probably the simplest and least > hassleful method is to cvsup the RELENG_4_9 sources, and then do a > normal {build,install}{world,kernel} job. There's not much point in > your tracking RELENG_4, unless you want to practice at upgrading. Is RELENG_4_9 already available at all? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html does not mention it. That's why i am tracking RELENG_4. -- Heinrich