Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:47:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com> To: Don Dugger <dugger@hotlz.com> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrades [each time more trouble] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010530132712.39024A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <3B1520FD.59D3A483@hotlz.com>
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It updates the base system. This is a moving target as openssh and the
crypto stuff has been added recently. It is that part of the system you
would install from the CD excluding ports and package distributions such
as XFree86. If you have a good network connection it works great.
Until 4.3 you had to track stable, assuming you are not a developer.
Stable has been "broken" once or twice in the past two years. While I
think this is a pretty great track record, if you happen to get caught it,
is a disaster of large proportions.
To protect from this rare occurrence, I cvsup to a test machine and then
update my network from that source tree. With 4.3 a security track has
been added. There was a post (here or in announcements??) that detailed
what is covered.
The process itself is pretty simple, I use a process posted to stable by
Paul Howes a while back. My version:
On the client system(s) you will need to nfs-mount these file systems.
mount -i nfs server:/usr/src /usr/src
mount -i nfs server:/usr/obj /usr/obj
Now, on the server you can do:
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNCONF=client
And on the client do:
make installkernel KERNCONF=client
make installworld
mergemaster
reboot
You may also have a common ports source tree, just
mount -i nfs server:/usr/ports /usr/ports
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Don Dugger wrote:
> I'll admit I've never tried cvsup, I've been meaning to look into it.
> How mush of the system dose it update?
>
> Don 8)
>
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