From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 06:34:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434AD106564A for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:34:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1125F8FC13 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:34:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so7470990rvf.43 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:34:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QFUTnRxO+SRpFPC8WY2UPveMnYNFwi3XceOPYKjfF6A=; b=TEyEZc857pKI5J7wULxUA13CIi71KO3mrUf/AM24kzqFu4g4vbwfdHXVB+3sPQ00hN JCvJeYaSK+t3FNNbiqdJlVuuX16xGDJ4HxAS6e7xlVDRJkogS83bIUc6gZ69gCUbzpAJ L49kV9yc2I19bBJGvcrfx8V2jMB0JgrSfLYS8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kysxYnV4BYG/aQXbcKL0ue0Dn0Y+uuQvq5acsirvMnbCPQFX/WTppHd1Nlf2Jue212 IWROlJY4UzYdirjtjTUqIknnP1NP+HJYZzsOcCyqZl3DiSdgQcdP1PrI1havenGdkS2u rsO02q1vf9KFLpmDOMrwFNxO0CYvVe2UrcAVs= Received: by 10.114.154.1 with SMTP id b1mr2540951wae.77.1233210855640; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:34:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.4.70? (c-68-35-57-46.hsd1.nm.comcast.net [68.35.57.46]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a8sm23291697poa.5.2009.01.28.22.34.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:34:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49814E03.5010908@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:34:43 -0700 From: Tim Judd User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Akenner References: <94136a2c0901280332n7301fe50tc85408a9f20c6a22@mail.gmail.com> <49804A92.904@gmail.com> <20090128133943.6ac00015@gumby.homeunix.com> <4981455F.8060907@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4981455F.8060907@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Steps to upgrade from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:34:16 -0000 Akenner wrote: > RW wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:07:46 -0700 >> Tim Judd wrote: >> >> >> >>> Nothing really beats the CVS way. And when I tried a 7.0 to a 7.1, >>> it wanted like >30,000 updates and was taking forever. >>> >> >> It seems to me that most people that come to this list with base-system >> update problems are using freebsd-update. >> _______________________________________________ >> >> > This is going to seem stupid, but instead of making a new topic, can > someone link to me a working link of the handbook where you update your > CVS and so on? I know that on the FreeBSD page there is a handbook that > has exactly what I'm looking for, and for some reason I'm having trouble > finding it even though I used to have it saved but I don't anymore and I > wanted to get CVS sources updated so I can do some updating. > > Thanks > csup -g -L 1 -h cvs#.cc.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile i.e: cvs17.us.freebsd.org This will update to your uname -r latest patchlevel. Copy and replace (for you): RELENG_7_0 with RELENG_7_1 to get the latest patchlevel for 7.1 Original doc seems either replaced by the freebsd-update method (while excellent, there are a few things that CVS really triumphs on). csup is part of base. I'd be glad to help you through. The canonical update method is still listed in the handbook (SS. 24.7.1) used after retrieving the sources. --Tim