From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 10 2:57:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (www.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua [212.111.192.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E1D537B406 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 02:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (eth0.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua [10.0.1.184]) by relay1.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EDB52F00E; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:57:04 +0300 (EEST) Received: from pm5149 (pm514-9.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua [10.18.54.109]) by comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9A9nWb08635; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:49:32 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <002701c15167$cf1f4960$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> From: "Andrey Simonenko" To: "Danny Horne" Cc: References: <004f01c15161$6fd08a60$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> <003301c1516e$7da803e0$0a01a8c0@clifftop.net> Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:44:43 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: Danny Horne Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.questions Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE > > Why not just CVSup STABLE branch and compile whole system > > from sources? Take an example for CVSup configuration file > > from the /usr/share/examples/cvsup directoty for STABLE branche, > > install cvsup from package and update your system with "make > > buildworld" and "make installworld". Before clean content of the > > /usr/obj directory. > > > Hi Andrey, > > I wonder if you could explain that in slightly more exacting terms. I'm > planning on upgrading my system from 4.4rc2 to 4.4-RELEASE. Can cvsup do > this? Yes, but is better to upgrade to STABLE branch. > > I've looked at stable-supfile in the examples directory and with a bit of > editing this would seem to be the right supfile. I want only to upgrade the > kernel source & ports collection. It is a bad idea to upgrade only some parts of sysetm, read message here with subject "cvsup not useful" for more information. In your case 4.4rc2 -> 4.4-RELEASE may be it will be normal to upgrade just part of system, but I'm not sure here. > > My server is live so I don't want to screw anything up in the process. One probably will have problems with upgrading only some parts of system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message