From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 18:46:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 24-25-220-29.san.rr.com (24-25-220-29.san.rr.com [24.25.220.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94CEA14DAE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 18:46:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gateway.gorean.org (gateway.gorean.org [10.0.0.1]) by 24-25-220-29.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA60747; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 18:44:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 18:43:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@24-25-220-29.san.rr.com To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: David Scheidt , Tom Embt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading/CVSUPping with bad ISP connection In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > OK, i read the docs on the site and now i'm *really* confused. I usually > make a new kernel before a new world. Also, i haven't really done any > merging or in any way touched /etc after building a new world. Maybe i > get away with that because i have a very simple single-user desktop system > and i've only been tracking -STABLE since 3.2. Should i expect a lot more > work for 3.4, or any major revision after this one? The amount of work increases the farther away you get from the last time you updated. 3.2 -> 3.4 should be pretty easy (although if I recall correctly the $Id -> $FreeBSD change was in there, so it will look a lot worse than it really is). One of the reasons I wrote mergemaster was to automate the "duh" part of the process to the point where it would be easier to look at and evaluate the real changes. The other thing that saves you is that we work really hard not to make your system _working_ depend on a new frob in rc-land. You might not get a new function turned on, but you should still be able to boot and run with an older rc*. HTH, Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message