From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 24 11:29:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA09848 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 11:29:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA09843 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 11:29:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA03359; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 11:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 11:22:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Edwin Culp cc: nik@iii.co.uk, bboone@whro.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating EXISTING system... In-Reply-To: <3450A473.77547AA4@mexcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Edwin Culp wrote: > nik@iii.co.uk wrote: > > > > Sorry Bob, I only say your message in Annelise's reply. > > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 1997 at 02:59:38PM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Bob Boone wrote: > > > > Now I'm considering the jump to 2.2.5, but on the existing.... > > > > running.... website machine. > > > > [...] > > > > >> (1) Will the 2.2.5 simply build "over" my existing files as CVS would ?? > > > > Yes. > > > > AFAIK, the only thing you need to worry about is /etc/group. > > > > In the jump from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5, a new group was added to /etc/group. > > 'make world' will try and install some binaries ('ppp' and friends > > I think), and change their ownership to match this new group. > > > > Of course, at this point in the install you'll still be using your > > old /etc/group, without the new group in it. So the install will > > fail. > > > > The trick is to put the added group into your existing /etc/group > > before you begin 'make world'. The line to add is > > > > network:*:69: > > > > N > > -- Actually it would be nice if there were a README file in /usr/src that gave information of this type. It should be unnecessary to either search the archives (how would one know what to search for in advance?) or....if it's not a "current event," following the mailing lists won't help. > I want to confirm that the tag value en cvs-supfile is still > RELENG_2_2 by itself. > > TIA > > ed > > P.D. uname -a still gives 2.2-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #0 is that also > correct? > I was wondering about that myself. Annelise