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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.0.5 to 2.2-SNAP
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To: ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (Annelise Anderson)
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> 
> > 
> > > 
> > >> I recently used sup to upgrade 2.1R to 2.1-STABLE.  I have 2.0.5
> > >> also installed and would like to upgrade it to 2.2-SNAP, but as
> > >> far as I can tell this can't be done with sup.  Or can it?
> > > 
> > >> Thanks--
> > > 
> > >> Annelise
> > 
> > >You can try to build world in /usr/src, then build a new kernel
> > >reboot and see what happens. I did it this way from a 2.1. Don't know
> > >for 2.0.5 though.
> > 
> > This part I know how to do; what I don't know is what to substitute
> > for "current" or "stable" in the supfile that tells ftp.freebsd.org
> > what I want to get, or what to get "by hand" if necessary.
> 
> :Just get the supfile from ftp.freebsd.org.
> Appended is the one I'm using:
> #
> :src-base release=current host=sup.FreeBSD.org hostbase=/home base=/home prefix=/home/src delete old compress use-rel-suffix
> 
> I think this won't do it--I get either current or stable with the sup file.
> What I was interested in was 2.2-SNAP (May 1) and it seems this can't be
> done with sup.  So, is there some other way to do it?

Ouch, you wanted SNAP, sorry. Totally overlooked. No, you can't get 
SNAP by sup. snap is not a sup target.
Then get the sources from SNAP via ftp and build the world.

> 
> Annelise
> 
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de