From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 13: 0:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1108937B40E for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 13:00:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a237.otenet.gr [212.205.215.237]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4TK030j021915; Wed, 29 May 2002 23:00:05 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4TJxsQd057292; Wed, 29 May 2002 23:00:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4TJLwYQ051685; Wed, 29 May 2002 22:21:58 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 22:21:57 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Morse, Richard E." Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating question (yes, I know that this has been rehashed ma ny t imes...) Message-ID: <20020529192157.GA49392@hades.hell.gr> References: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1AD7@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1AD7@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-05-29 11:39 -0400, Morse, Richard E. wrote: > Kirk Strauser [mailto:kirk@strauser.com] wrote: > > From /usr/src/UPDATING: > > > > To update from 4.0-RELEASE or later to the most current > > 4.x-STABLE > > ---------- > > make buildworld > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > > make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > > reboot (in single user) > > make installworld > > mergemaster > > reboot > > Hmmm.... I read /usr/src/UPDATING. My copy only says that I should run > "make world" (except when it doesn't work). I'm tracking RELENG_4_5 -- > could that have a less up-to-date /usr/src/UPDATING? This is exactly what UPDATING contains for RELENG_4_5 too :) Look near line 387, and you will see exactly the text that the previous poster quoted. > Thanks for posting the correct instructions -- it is much clearer than in > the handbook... Hmmm, if the Handbook was unclear in some place, it should be fixed. What was the part that got you confused? - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message