Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:18:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Greg Skouby <gskouby@sitesnow.com> Cc: Joe McGuckin <joe@monk.via.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup question Message-ID: <19981009111821.O3369@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981008112205.17036A-100000@sitesnow.com>; from Greg Skouby on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 11:24:02AM %2B0000 References: <19981008172411.K443@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.981008112205.17036A-100000@sitesnow.com>
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On Thursday, 8 October 1998 at 11:24:02 +0000, Greg Skouby wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 7 October 1998 at 15:50:00 -0700, Joe McGuckin wrote: >>> >>> I have a 2.2.5-RELEASE system. If I use cvsup with the stable-supfile >>> config, will that upgrade the system to 2.2.7-STABLE? >> >> That will sup 2.2-STABLE. You then need to do a 'make world' to >> install the non-kernel components and a kernel build to install the >> kernel. >> >> It's not impossible that you might have some slight problems upgrading >> from 2.2.5 to a recent 2.2-STABLE. If you do, make sure you know >> what you're doing before proceeding (by sending a message to >> -questions, for example). > > Coud you please elaborate on some of the slight problems that you might > run into when going from 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2-STABlE? Not really; it's just a possibility. As "wheely" said, though, there appear to be no problems: > I just upgraded from 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2.7-STABLE today, no real > problems I've found (yet) as long as you follow the instructions at > http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html > . Be careful to update /etc properly - a lot of changes have gone on > in the last year. You may have to reinstall some ports too. > And will the same slight problems occur when going from > 2.2.6-RELEASE to 2.2-STABLE? Much less likely. That's the route that's been tested. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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