From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 10 3:16:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8078737B401 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 03:16:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.245.138.251.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.138.251]) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f9AAGSH11636; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 03:16:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9AAGKU03887; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 03:16:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 03:16:20 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <20011010031620.L387@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from patrick@mip.co.za on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:51:15AM +0200 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 11:51:15AM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > Hi all! > > Please forgive me, but this question springs from my over-developed sense of > caution :) > > I have a box installed from the 4.3 CD set. > > root carrot:/# uname -a > FreeBSD carrot.mip.co.za 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 > 10:54:49 GMT 2001 jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC > i386 > > Is it safe for me to run cvsup with a 'sup' file like this: > ------------------ > # SUP file for 4.x stable > > *default tag=RELENG_4 > #*default host=cvsup.za.FreeBSD.org > *default host=cvsup2.za.FreeBSD.org > *default prefix=/usr > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > > src-all > ------------------ > > In other words, is it quite safe to assume that cvsup will correctly update > my system which is actually 6 months AND one version number out of date? CVSup does not 'update your system.' CVSup will grab the source code you need to upgrade the system. Your supfile will get you the latest 4.4-STABLE source code. CVSup'ing alone really can't hurt anything. Once you have the code, you can use the various 'buildworld' and 'installworld' targets and still not worry about breaking anything... Now, doing the 'installkernel,' 'installworld,' and mergemaster(8) is where you need to be concerned. -- 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