From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 11 11:55:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA03456 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 May 1996 11:55:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hoover.stanford.edu (hoover.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA03446 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 11:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU by HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #13307) id <01I4KTXZUO8W005GN8@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>; Sat, 11 May 1996 11:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 11:55:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.0.5 to 2.2-SNAP To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <01I4KTXZV7J6005GN8@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de" X-VMS-Cc: IN%"freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org",ANDRSN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >> 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. I looked at the 2.2-SNAP files in the src directory on ftp.freebsd.com, and they are organized in an entirely differently way from the "current" and "stable" sources, as would be expected since they are not a sup target. I don't know exactly what to get and how to arrange it so that I can do the build. I've looked at the handbook and it doesn't seem to be there, but if it is I will be happy to read it. Annelise ::--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de