Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:29:48 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> To: "jomor" <jomor@ahpcns.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvsup 3.x-STABLE to 4.x-STABLE Message-ID: <00fb01c0ac49$02a483a0$029b140a@danco>
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>I need to bring my home firewall/server up to date. I've been tracking >3.x-STABLE but I want to bring it to 4.x-STABLE. I'm hoping I can just >edit my cvsup "stable-supfile" to point it at the right version, cvsup >the source, and make world without too much clean up. Anybody care to >share any big "gotchas" that I might come accross with this plan? Last summer I wrote up the procedure in my cheat sheets (http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/sheet.cgi?3-4upgrade). Although it's now quite old, it should still work. At least take a look at it, since it points you to the official documentation. My best piece of advice: After you cvsup the new sources, make sure you read /usr/src/UPDATING carefully. (Then, of course, back up everything you want to keep...) Although the transition from 3 to 4 is definitely more convoluted than an update within the 3 branch, it's actually not that bad. And 4-STABLE is worlds better; you won't look back. Good luck, --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com FreeBSD Cheat Sheets http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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