Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 15:02:49 +0100 From: "Andy Coates" <andy@friends-tv.net> To: "Phil Homewood" <pdh@bit.net.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE and 3.4-STABLE Message-ID: <015501bfac63$7407a0e0$0100a8c0@blade> References: <013501bfac47$4bf81bf0$0100a8c0@blade> <20000422205030.C1898@atlas.bit.net.au>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Homewood" <pdh@bit.net.au> To: "Andy Coates" <andy@friends-tv.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 11:50 AM Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE and 3.4-STABLE > 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 I did have the src tree, so I did the update. Couldn't find any info regarding what to do after the update, so I just presumed you did the "make world" once it had updated. Well its been going at that for a while now, so it looks promising :) Thanks for the info, and for Rahul or also replied. Andy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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