From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 13:37: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B00637B719 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:37:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1SLaNm76979; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:36:23 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:36:22 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Marc W Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2 Message-ID: <20010301103622.A71041@itouchnz.itouch> References: <200102282108.NAA45629@akira.lanfear.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102282108.NAA45629@akira.lanfear.com>; from mwlist@lanfear.com on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:08:50PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:08:50PM -0800, Marc W wrote: > > > okay, so i'm going to give this a go. I've got a 4.1 system here, > but want to upgrade it to 4.2 using the ports and all the automated > rebuilding systems. > > So, I went to /usr/ports/cvsupit, and installed and ran it, and it > gave me the choice of tracking RELENG_4, which is i think what i want. > > now, the question is -- after i've run this -- what do i have? a > -STABLE or a -CURRENT ??? i'd really rather stay away from the -CURRENT > releases and stay with a -STABLE.... You'll have 4.X-STABLE. > after reading the docs it appears that all that is left after that > is > > make -DNOPROFILE=true buildworld > make -DNOPROFILE=true installworld > reboot More like a: make buildworld make buildkernel KERNEL=YOURKERNEL make installkernel KERNEL=YOURKERNEL make installworld mergemaster reboot It's always worthwhile reading /usr/src/UPDATING after your cvsup as well. Good luck! -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message