From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 14 03:27:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7099F16A4CE for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 03:27:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF3543D3F for ; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 03:27:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5080A6292; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:27:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54560-09; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:27:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4EE86289; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:27:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <411D86A3.8080704@makeworld.com> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:27:31 -0500 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040809) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rail mail References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 03:27:36 -0000 Rail mail wrote: > I have compiled kernel and now want to find easiest, safest way to > upgrade a production machine. > > I'm trying to make a decision on to either A just always do a cvsup > with RELENG_5_X and make world or B try to pull something together > with freebsd-update. > > of course freebsd-update 1.4 gets upset since files were modified, due > to src update and compile. I could be wrong but I thought the whole idea of FreeBSDUpdate is NOT to mess with the source. I always thought that the before mentioned updeated only the binaries. That being said, and if you did tamper with the source - then cvsup (to me) is the proper course of action. -- Best regards, Chris Real programmers can do octal, hexadecimal and binary math in their heads.