From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 8 18:54:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19403 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 18:54:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19336 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 18:53:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA03608; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:19:11 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA27712; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:18:22 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981009111821.O3369@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:18:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Greg Skouby Cc: Joe McGuckin , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup question References: <19981008172411.K443@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Greg Skouby on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 11:24:02AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 X-Mutt-References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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