Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 20:50:30 +1000 From: Phil Homewood <pdh@bit.net.au> To: Andy Coates <andy@friends-tv.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE and 3.4-STABLE Message-ID: <20000422205030.C1898@atlas.bit.net.au> In-Reply-To: <013501bfac47$4bf81bf0$0100a8c0@blade>; from andy@friends-tv.net on Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 11:41:17AM %2B0100 References: <013501bfac47$4bf81bf0$0100a8c0@blade>
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Andy Coates wrote: > I recently obtained the 3.4-RELEASE ISO and installed that on my system. I'm > now a little confused with regards to the 3.4-STABLE release - am I right in > thinking that the RELEASE was a snapshot of STABLE at a certain point (Dec > 1999)? Correct. > If this is the case, and I wish to make my system STABLE, are there any > listings of the files which have been changed since RELEASE, so I don't have > to get *all* the files? Not that I am aware of. Read on... > I'm on a modem at home, so getting the whole src tree would take me ages - > however I could FTP the files from university and bring them home - would > that be okay and just copy the src tree I downloaded into my current src dir > and "make world" ? If you have a /usr/src tree already, you should take a look at CVSup. Install it, create a supfile (/usr/share/examples/cvsup will set you on the right road), tweak your /etc/make.conf and "cd /usr/src; make update". http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html#CVSUP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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