From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 13:07:29 2004 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 5D6E916A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 13:07:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from destiny.chrononomicon.com (mail.chrononomicon.com [65.193.73.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C0143D1F for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 13:07:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (destiny.chrononomicon.com [192.168.1.42]) by destiny.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94A571FDFF for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:07:22 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:07:22 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) Subject: Rebuilding the World Question 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: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:07:29 -0000 Here's a definite question from a first timer, but there are so many variations out there that I thought I'd bounce this off the list and see what people thought (if I was doing this "correctly") I have a 4.9-RELEASE installation. It was recently pointed out to me that to get all the bug fixes and security fixes, I need to cvsup with "RELENG_4_9", not "RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE". So...here's the src-supfile I am using: ******* *default host=cvsup7.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default tag=RELENG_4_9 src-all doc-all ***** (does the tag=. matter here?) I run it with cvsup -g -L 2 src-supfile glance over /etc/make.conf cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot into single user mode with "boot -s" mergemaster -p make installworld mergemaster reboot into normal multiuser mode One source I found said that they allow mergemaster to pretty much overwrite files unless it is asking about /etc/passwd /etc/hosts /etc/groups /etc/master.passwd This is an update from 4.9 release to the (hopefully) security updated version, and the system is running a generic kernel and is a pretty stock install (some ports are in place, but port updates are done separately, as I understand it) Are there any steps or pieces of advice I'm missing here? Advice/explanations/etc. are all appreciated. Thanks!