From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 19:52:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27726 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 19:52:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27596 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 19:52:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-226.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.226]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA17355; Wed, 20 May 1998 21:52:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA01857; Wed, 20 May 1998 21:06:58 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199805210206.VAA01857@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "brenda lambiris" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: updating...... In-reply-to: Message from "brenda lambiris" of "Mon, 18 May 1998 20:04:57 EDT." <01bd82b9$c2436800$193085ce@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 21:06:57 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "brenda lambiris" writes: > since FreeBSD isnt like linux, but it kind of is, to update the kernel, > could you just download it straight from kernel.org like you would on a > linux machine, or will you have to download a special kernel from > Freebsd.org? thanks. Did anyone mention cvsup yet? *I* think the best way update is to use cvsup. Plenty of examples in /usr/share/examples/cvsup to overload your brain. This is my cvsupfile with all the comments trimmed out and some other things added: *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_2_2 *default delete use-rel-suffix compress src-all src-crypto src-secure *default tag=. ports-all doc-all I name it /root/cvsupfile, and run it "cvsup /root/cvsfile". Sometimes updating the kernel only isn't enough. If you use lkm's (such as the console screensaver, or linux emulation) then you really ought to rebuild the lkm's when a new kernel is built. If you delete everything after and including "src-all" above and replace it with "src-sys" then as I understand things you will only cvsup updates to that which is in /usr/src/sys, ie: your kernel. Sometimes I stop and remember to be amazed at how fast cvsup can update a 150M source tree over a 28.8k modem. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message