From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 5:51:36 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 05:51:30 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl (smtp.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6702637B698 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 05:51:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by smtp.hccnet.nl via uds25-123.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.123.25] with ESMTP id OAA20242 (8.8.5/1.13); Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:51:28 +0100 (MET) Received: by parmenides.utp.net (Postfix, from userid 1005) id A3EDD14D; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:50:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by parmenides.utp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 713A112E; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:50:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:50:18 +0100 (CET) From: Janko van Roosmalen To: fpassera@freesurf.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An upgrade from FreeBSD-4.0-RELEASE to FreeBSD-4.2-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <20010105114024.12DF19B02@mail.freesurf.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 fpassera@freesurf.fr wrote: [snip] > May be there is a faster way to upgrade from one RELEASE to another RELEASE > (download time appart). > > Any comment would be appreciated. > > Here are the steps : > > Step 1) Upgrade the source > I used CVSup to get the source from Internet. As I did that for the 1st > time, I had to download all the files, which lasted about 5 hours on a > 64kpbs link. I have never used CVSup client before and it is simple to > configure for a basic usage. I have appreciated the test mode. > My supfile is : > > *default host=cvsup.de.FreeBSD.org > *default prefix=/usr > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > src-all tag=RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE > doc-all tag=RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE > You could have done the following to speed up the downloading part: 1) Install the source from your 4.0-RELEASE CDROM 2) run cvsup with a CVSup file with the 4.0 release tag, 3) change the tag to 4.2 release and re-cvsup. This is mentioned in the CVSup FAQ at www.polstra.com. ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message