Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 13:48:15 -0500 (EST) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: handbook procedure for upgrading via cvsup confusion Message-ID: <14431.52079.94710.758347@onceler.kcilink.com>
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Yesterday, I went through the process of upgrading via cvsup to 3.4-STABLE on my 3.3-STABLE box. I had a couple of things confuse me. I picked up the hint to run 'mergemaster' from this list. The handbook doesn't mention this handy utility at all. It walks you through the long laborious process by hand. Wouldn't it be good to mention the existence of this wonderful tool right at the top of that section in the handbook? Secondly, the part about updating /stand... doing as the handbook suggests "make all install" in release/sysintall only updates the sysinstall program; it doesn't update all the hard links to it. Also, the file size is greatly reduced, leading me to believe that it is not a proper upgrade of that directory. What is the proper way to upgrade the /stand directory and the subdirectories within it (the help and TXT files)? Other than that, it went extremely smoothly, and there were no problems whatsoever in getting it up and running. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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