From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 07:55:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA27819 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 07:55:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (ns.celwave.tm.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA27812 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 07:55:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr) From: THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP.9.9.9) with ESMTP id QAA04925; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:59:01 +0200 Received: from aifhs1.alcatel.fr (aifhs1.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.86]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id QAA15938; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:46:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aifhs1.alcatel.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27511; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:49:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id QAA15777; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:46:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA10032; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:49:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13465; Thu, 23 Jul 98 16:37:46 +0200 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA046164385; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:33:05 +0200 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 98 16:32:52 +0200 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Upgrading over the net..... (minimalist howto) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ni@tellique.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="Re:" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Re:" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here's what I get on a 2.2.5 machine : no "pkg_install" pc-mcs1:/ (130) % ll /usr/sbin/pkg* -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 40960 Oct 21 1997 /usr/sbin/pkg_add -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 32768 Oct 21 1997 /usr/sbin/pkg_create -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 32768 Oct 21 1997 /usr/sbin/pkg_delete -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 32768 Oct 21 1997 /usr/sbin/pkg_info pc-mcs1:/ (131) % > OK, I have cvsup and have been using it to stay current with the KDE > development, so I am familiar with that part... So, KDE does have a cvsup server ? That's very fine. I'll use it to follow the developpment. (I hope there won't be a fight between the source imported from KDE and the port from freebsd.org, though) > > Regarding th second suggestion (doing a make buildworld)...will that hose my > custom kernel I have now? make world (buildworld is a sub-target) "only" updates the "userland" of FreeBSD - after a buildworld, you generally rebuid your kernel (with config mykernel ; cd ../../compile/mykernel ; etc ....) You rebuild your kernel on a manual intervention. > > On 23-Jul-98 THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr wrote: > > Hi > > I don't have the previous attachments, but a safe beginning is : > > - read the handbook on staying stable (in www.freebsd.org) > > - try and "make buildworld" in /usr/src (read the Makefile) > > - man cvsup (and the www site of its author Mr Polstra) - you will > > probably have to install the cvsup package (hence man "pkg_delete") > > You ment pkg_install right?? > > ---------------------------------- > William Woods > --> FreeBSD 2.2.6 <-- > Date: 23-Jul-98 > Time: 06:12:33 > ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message