From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 5:41:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from entropy.inserted.net (unknown [61.12.142.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16A6137B698 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 05:40:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6643 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2001 13:27:33 -0000 Received: from fortune.inserted.net (HELO fortune.inserted.yi.org) (192.168.0.2) by entropy.inserted.net with SMTP; 8 Feb 2001 13:27:33 -0000 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010209001853.02eb1520@sardinox.inserted.net> X-Sender: steve@inserted.yi.org@sardinox.inserted.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 00:24:18 +1100 To: "Robert" From: Stephen Ware Subject: Re: I think I understand how I stay STABLE now, without a lot of hassel! correct me if I'm wrong. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 04:35 PM 2/8/2001 +1000, you wrote: >I think I've worked it out finally. > >I updated from 4.0-RELEASE to 4.2-STABLE using cvsup. src-all, ports-all and >doc-all. But I have been wondering about this, because even if you do >another cvsup on a daily basis, new files will be pulled down. > >I'd been thinking 'how can one do this - it would need a complete build >every night!!!' > >Of course it doesn't - silly me. > >What it does mean is that even if one does a cvsup on a weekly basis say, >then the _sources_ are always up to date, and IF one then needs to do an >update/upgrade/kernel build whatever, then one is always using the latest >sources. Now THAT makes sense. So I can go ahead an set up a cron job, that >simply calls the cvsup/supfile say once a week. I was under the impression that the sources on your system should match that of the built/installed system, generally for the reason, that if something breaks, you can recompile just that section, and not have to worry about unresolved dependancies, and such. Am I in error? Peace, Stephen steve@inserted.yi.org >Everything works fine now. I had a brand new Acer keyboard - and it simply >would not be recognised by the start up. Put in an "old" keyboard, and away >it went no worries. I still haven't found out what the probelm is with the >keyboard stuff, but I know I'm not the only one with this probelm !!! That >needs looking into. > >but 4.2-STABLE is sure the bees knees. Now to find out how to bring my >2.2-SNAP server up to the same level !!! > >bc > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message