From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 7 02:40:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA04740 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 02:40:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cheops.anu.edu.au (avalon@cheops.anu.edu.au [150.203.76.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA04729 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 02:40:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199704070940.CAA04729@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: by cheops.anu.edu.au (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA008765699; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 19:34:59 +1000 From: Darren Reed Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 19:34:59 +1000 (EST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704070856.SAA06608@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 7, 97 06:26:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.