Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 19:34:59 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... Message-ID: <199704070940.CAA04729@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199704070856.SAA06608@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 7, 97 06:26:23 pm
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In some mail from Michael Smith, sie said: [...] > > Maybe I bought FreeBSD 2.2 on CD-ROM, I want to upgrade to 2.2.1. > > Alternatives currently are: > > * buy the new CD when it becomes available > > * download all the binaries > > * download all the source > > * setup cvsup > > * download Danny's 2.2.1 binary upgrade. Right. If a source code equivalent of this was available, it'd be perfect. > * fetch the CTM deltas from the 2.2 baseline to whatever level you want. I'll have to research CTM. [...] > Note that CVSup does _not_ require you to have a local CVS repository, > you can use it in checkout mode and just track a given tag, or you can > mix and match (use checkout mode for most of the system, but keep a > partial CVS repo for the kernel, eg.) [...] > Note that setting CVSup up in checkout mode and having it update the > 2.2 sources to 2.2.1 is actually pretty darn painless. Also note that > it's 2.2.1 on the CD, not 2.2. I can see I'm going to need to checkup more about CVSup.
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