From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 24 14:07:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A7116A417 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:07:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+SO=f2168f00@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from turtle-out.mxes.net (turtle-out.mxes.net [216.86.168.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E97613C478 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:07:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+SO=f2168f00@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-04.mxes.net (mxout-04.mxes.net [216.86.168.179]) by turtle-in.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F54163F79 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:35:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A719CD05B0 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:35:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:35:45 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080124133545.01217814@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <47960812.8070101@highperformance.net> References: <4795F37B.4040908@gmail.com> <47960812.8070101@highperformance.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.5; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Updating older 7.0 to newer sources, local buildworld problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:07:01 -0000 On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:13:22 -0800 "Jason C. Wells" wrote: > Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: > > I'm having troubles updating my buildworld and i've had troubles > > narrowing it down on google. > > > > My question is: > > > > Is there any way i could update the system in the state it is now? > > (Preferably without reinstalling the entire system from scratch.) > > > > PS. I've heard about freebsd-update but never got it to work (see > > below) > > I have never used freebsd-update so I can't comment there. I think > that's a binary update though. You are trying to build from source. > > I would use cvsup to update my source tree to 7.0-RELEASE. Since > your initial sources are before Sep 19, they are not 7.0-RELEASE. > Read about cvsup in the handbook. Look at the example files in > /usr/share/examples/cvsup. The I would run 'make clean' and 'make > buildworld' all over again. > > Except for creating a newfs and tweaking files in /etc, building the > world is pretty much installing the entire system. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html > > Be careful about the cvs tag that you use. RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE is > what you will eventually want. If that tag has not yet been set by > releng@, then you will delete your sources. I recommend '-d 20' with > cvsup to protect yourself from accidental deletions. I don't see the need for that, /usr/src/ isn't particularly precious, and it may well be the case that you do need to remove that many files across a major upgrade. > RELENG_7 is > probably what you want until 7.0 is actually released. Since it already exists (I'm using it), the best tag to use is RELENG_7_0