Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 03:07:44 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Danny Horne <danny@clifftop.net> Cc: Andrey Simonenko <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>, Joshua Holland <josh@bitstream.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE Message-ID: <20011010030744.K387@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <003301c1516e$7da803e0$0a01a8c0@clifftop.net>; from danny@clifftop.net on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:32:31AM %2B0100 References: <p0500190fb7e991f41dc0@[10.0.1.100]> <004f01c15161$6fd08a60$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> <003301c1516e$7da803e0$0a01a8c0@clifftop.net>
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:32:31AM +0100, Danny Horne wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrey Simonenko" <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
> To: "Joshua Holland" <josh@bitstream.net>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 8:59 AM
> 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?
CVSup can get the source code necessary to do this. You still need to
build the code.
> 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.
Do not just upgrade kernel source and build a new kernel. Your kernel
and userland can get out of synchronization. This will break stuff.
> My server is live so I don't want to screw anything up in the process.
If this is a production machine, you really should not be upgrading
unless you have a very good reason, e.g. a security fix or really want
some new functionality.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
cjclark@jhu.edu
cjc@freebsd.org
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