Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:35:16 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "FreeBSD Question List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: cvsup Message-ID: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIEEKCDKAA.patrick@mip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20011012001359.H13476@hades.hell.gr>
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OK - thanks to all for your support! I have gone ahead to the point of completing 'make buildworld', with the help of the handbook and yourselves. Next few steps (next week, as I have just been given a free golfing weekend and must run... :) are: make buildkernel make installkernel make installworld Or something along those lines? I must just check how to tell 'make installkernel' to use my modified config file (GENERIC with tweaks). More later - thanks again. Patrick. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Giorgos > Keramidas > Sent: 11 October 2001 23:14 > To: Patrick O'Reilly > Cc: FreeBSD Question List > Subject: Re: cvsup > > > Patrick O'Reilly <patrick@mip.co.za> wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > Please forgive me, but this question springs from my over-developed > > sense of caution :) > > Welcome to the club. > > > Is it safe for me to run cvsup with a 'sup' file like this: > > ------------------ > > # SUP file for 4.x stable > > > > *default tag=RELENG_4 > > #*default host=cvsup.za.FreeBSD.org > > *default host=cvsup2.za.FreeBSD.org > > *default prefix=/usr > > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > > > > src-all > > ------------------ > > > > In other words, is it quite safe to assume that cvsup will > correctly update > > my system which is actually 6 months AND one version number out of date? > > CVSup will only update your sources. The supfile you included above > will fetch the latest sources in the -STABLE branch, and you'll have > to build from these sources to update your system. > > Before updating from the sources, I suggest reading the "Using make > world" section of chapter "The Cutting edge" from the Handbook. > That should be helpful enough. If it does not seem helpful at all, or > you find something confusing in there, it's a bug of the > documentation, and you should let us know. > > -giorgos > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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