Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:27:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> To: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309220723510.12368-100000@yogi.cybcon.com> In-Reply-To: <12829.1064235540@thrush.ravenbrook.com>
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While I tend to agree with you on the steps you outline, there should NOT be a firestorm on stable, things should be fairly well tested BEFORE being commited to stable. Maby its time to revisit the branch naming scheme, considering the name "stable" carries with it certian implications. On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Nick Barnes wrote: > At 2003-09-21 10:19:31+0000, "Jacob" writes: > > A few different people have told me different ways here, don't wanna risk > > screwing it up. > > > > I cvsupped with stable-supfile and ports-supfile, now I'm doing make > > buildworld. Now, the way I was going to do it was after the > > buildworld, make buildkernel KERNCONF=MILOWARE, then make > > installkernel=MILOWARE, then a restart. After that doing make > > installworld then mergemaster. > > > > Is this right? > > The right thing to do is *always* this: > > 0. Subscribe to -stable. Do not upgrade if there's a firestorm on > being reported on -stable. > > 1. cvsup. > > 2. Read /usr/src/UPDATING. > > 3. Follow the instructions there. > > Note that this cannot be automated. > > Nick B > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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