From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 10 3: 8: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423FB37B405 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 03:07:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.245.138.251.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.138.251]) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f9AA7l524491; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 03:07:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9AA7j303697; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 03:07:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 03:07:44 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Danny Horne Cc: Andrey Simonenko , Joshua Holland , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE Message-ID: <20011010030744.K387@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <004f01c15161$6fd08a60$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> <003301c1516e$7da803e0$0a01a8c0@clifftop.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003301c1516e$7da803e0$0a01a8c0@clifftop.net>; from danny@clifftop.net on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:32:31AM +0100 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 Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:32:31AM +0100, Danny Horne wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrey Simonenko" > To: "Joshua Holland" > Cc: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message