From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 21 11:35:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1FEA16A4B3 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:35:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E52543F3F for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:35:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h8LIZ1w04738; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:35:02 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: liuyang99@EARTHLINK.NET, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:34:58 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309211134.58445.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: cvsup src help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:35:10 -0000 On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:27 am, ALIAS wrote: > i use used cvsup to update the src after that what do i do? i read > that there are things like make world to install the new src files? > how do i do that? _______________________________________________ There are a lot of places to begin by reading. The most important is /usr/src/UPDATING. For version 4.x, the sequence begins around line 482. Look for To update from 4.0-RELEASE or later to the most current 4.x-STABLE There are a number of books that tell you what to do but UPDATING is the final reference. If it doesn't make sense to you, you need to read the handbook sections on updating your world. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html