From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 20:13: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7EC137B40A for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 20:12:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 29207 invoked by uid 100); 19 Sep 2001 03:12:58 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15272.3386.129191.967367@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 22:12:58 -0500 To: Rob Andrews Cc: Jim Freeze , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I install 4.4R? In-Reply-To: <20010918214322.C27235@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org> References: <36762700@toto.iv> <15272.866.46291.398574@guru.mired.org> <20010918214322.C27235@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Rob Andrews types: > > Yes, it's worth it. At the very least, apply the security patches that > > have been made to RELENG_4_3 since it was released. > > This brings me to the other point of upgrading a system. you can in > most cases just use cvsup to upgrade the userland and kernel source > and 'make world' to rebuild the system that way. There aren't many > major configuration changes but when there are they usually make mention > of them in the release notes and other places as well. mergemaster is a big help in dealing with such things. You should always read updating in any case. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message