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Date:      Sat, 23 Nov 2002 21:05:20 +1300
From:      "Richard Shea" <richardshea@fastmail.fm>
To:        "Cliff Sarginson" <cls@raggedclown.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cvsupit - file system 105% - what have I done ?
Message-ID:  <20021123080520.EA6CC3717B4@server5.fastmail.fm>

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On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 06:30:00 +0100, "Cliff Sarginson"
<cls@raggedclown.net> said:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:38:26PM +1300, Richard Shea wrote:
> > Hi - For the first time ever I have tried to upgrade a FreeBSD by using
> > CVS. In fact I used CVSUPIT. I'm on 4.4-RELEASE and I just wanted to move
> > up to 4.5,6 or 7.
> > 
> > Well I answered a few questions, pressed the button and the process
> > commenced 'checking out' hundreds of files. I thought this was a bit
> > suprising given I thought the whole point of CVS was to only pull those
> > files which had changed - it just seemed to be pulling everying ! Anyway
> > I had to CTRL-C it after a while as the file system had gone to 105%. 
> > 
> The tag you have used will download the latest Stable release, i.e.
> everything up to a few hours ago post 4.7 release .. a squillion files.
> 
> To get upto 4.5 release I think you will need a tag of
> 
> RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE
>
Thanks for that - just what I need ...
 
[SNIP]
> 
> The src for 4.7 takes about 300 MB.
> Then you need space for the object files .. say >300
> 
It seems that I never had any source on this system so I'm going to have
to find that sort of space even to go to 4.5 I suppose ..

> 
> I have never upgraded this way, so the chance of success of using the
> above to jump from 4.4 to 4.7 in one bound is not something I could
> comment on.
> 
No I didn't really want to do that I thought I was going to be offered
finer grain options but the whole process started with just the
4.5_RELENG tag in place !

thanks again for your help

regards

richard shea.




> Good luck :)
> 
> -- 
> Regards
>    Cliff Sarginson 
>    The Netherlands
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