From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 18 02:35:02 2005 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 CE7E016A4CE for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 02:35:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from proxy.ddcom.co.jp (proxy.ddcom.co.jp [211.121.191.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95B3043D93 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 02:35:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rees@ddcom.co.jp) Received: (qmail 17732 invoked by alias); 18 May 2005 02:46:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO matthew) (10.10.10.11) by mail.ddcom.local with SMTP; 18 May 2005 02:46:18 -0000 Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:34:57 +0900 From: Joel To: In-Reply-To: References: <20050517202126.294A.REES@ddcom.co.jp> Message-Id: <20050518101928.0DAF.REES@ddcom.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.00.06 Subject: Re: How to use snapshots 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, 18 May 2005 02:35:02 -0000 > You really confused me now. :-( > Are you saying ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ is > a CVS server???? Errrmmmm ... > I think you are still talking about the normal cvsup source update > method which targets a bunch of different cvsup servers. Near as I understand, cvsup is one way to get to a snapshot. (If that's wrong, someone correct me.) > ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/pub/FreeBSD/i386/ > does not look like an cvs server. Looks like a 550 error to me. > Have you ever used this snapshots ftp site before???? No, I tend to use one of the Japanese cvsup servers. (I don't do binary upgrades, because I read somewhere that source upgrades are recommended.) I vaguely recall reading somewhere that you can do source upgrades to the snapshots by using appropriate tags. Gave it about a half hour, but couldn't find it again. So I can't tell you what those tags would look like, but I have the vague impression that RELENG_5 would be equivalent to the snapshot at the time of the cvsup. Have you tried, for instance, running sysinstall from the command line (as root) and selecting the Upgrade option? Did you read the documentation that refers you to? BTW, did you have problems finding the documentation that directs you to? You should probably go ahead and load those docs if they aren't there. -- Joel Rees digitcom, inc. 株式会社デジコム Kobe, Japan +81-78-672-8800 ** **