From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 21:32:55 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 9553C16A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:32:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686C743D1D for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:32:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:33:03 -0600 Message-ID: <402C6145.9020703@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:31:49 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Perry References: <200402120946.55492.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> <402C45AA.6090609@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <402C45AA.6090609@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Feb 2004 05:33:04.0171 (UTC) FILETIME=[DA33BFB0:01C3F1F2] cc: ecrist@adtechintegrated.com cc: richard cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade 4.8-4.9 help! 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: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:32:55 -0000 Bob Perry wrote: > Eric F Crist wrote: > >> On Wednesday 11 February 2004 06:25 pm, richard wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to upgrade Freebsd 4.8 to 4.9 using sysinstall | upgrade >>> off a >>> 4.9 CD. All seems fine until it gets to the point where it reports it >>> can't even extract the bin distribution and fails. >>> >>> Does anyone know of a fool-proof way to get this upgrade through? >>> Preferably some idiot-proof instructions I can follow. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Richard >>> >> >> >> Richard, >> >> If you have broadband, install cvsup, read the man page on that, and >> install new sources over FTP via cvsup. Once you have a correct >> supfile, it's pretty brainless. Most of us have some upgrading done >> via cron on a regular basis, completely unattended. >> >> > Would you care to summarize your upgrading procedure which you process > on a "regular > basis, completely unattended."? Details not necessary at this time, > just very curious. > > Thanks, > Bob Perry > >> HTH >> >> > > Haven't done it, but I'm guessing it's: X Y Z A cvsup /path/to/my.supfile Q R S T cd /usr/src && make buildworld > /my/homedir/buildworld.log "make buildkernel etc., make installkernel, make installworld, etc. I've been thinking of scripting this procedure and then just calling "upgrade.php*" via cron. Doubt that it'd be too good for the 'mergemaster' step, though. FWIW, the chapter in the handbook actually makes the procedure pretty clear. Kevin Kinsey *Yeah, PHP for scripting, I know ... give a old dog new languages? Not yet, please.... ;-)