From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 0:59:33 2002 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 AF33C37B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 00:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A744843E72 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 00:59:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g867q1ve023858; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:52:02 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g867q0eB023857; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:52:00 +1200 (NZST) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:51:59 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading and updating .... extremely complicated for me. Message-ID: <20020906075159.GA10475@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020906055902.96384.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020906055902.96384.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:59:02PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > > i thought it was only a matter of cvsup-ing the sources and then running > the "current" rebuilding the kernel. > > now i find that i need to do this "make world" stuff and edit my make.conf > file... which is much too complicated for me. unfortunately, the handbook > isn't helping too much. btw... the "make world" is giving me the > following errors: I've just looked thru' the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html and it doesn't say anywhere that you should do a "make world". In fact the Handbook recommends against it. If you're not comfortable with reading the stuff in the Handbook, perhaps you shouldn't be thinking of going with -stable. Going with -stable means you must be willing to read the instructions, and the Handbook is *THE* source. If you find any parts you don't understand, let us know. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message