From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 12:31:28 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 BB1B537B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:31:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BBF43E6A for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:31:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g86JV6S38605; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:31:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020906143106.00fbeac8@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:31:06 -0500 To: Bsd Neophyte , Jonathan Chen From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: upgrading and updating .... extremely complicated for me. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020906190323.71502.qmail@web20108.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020906075159.GA10475@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 12:03 PM 9.6.2002 -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > >--- Jonathan Chen wrote: >(snip) >> 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. > >okay... i do read the handbook... i refer to the handbook before ask >questions. however, for me, a person who is not very technically >inclined, some things in the handbook are beyond me. > >the handbook mentions that the make.conf file needs to be editied... but >it doesn't go into any detail like it did with how to modify the >kernel.generic file. i've tried reading the small explanations in the >make.conf file itself, but most of it is beyond my comprehension. > >this is what is says: > >"Examine the files /etc/defaults/make.conf and /etc/make.conf. The first >contains some default defines - most of which are commented out. To make >use of them when you rebuild your system from source, add them to >/etc/make.conf. Keep in mind that anything you add to /etc/make.conf is >also used every time you run make, so it is a good idea to set them to >something sensible for your system. > >A typical user will probably want to copy the CFLAGS and NOPROFILE lines >found in /etc/defaults/make.conf to /etc/make.conf and uncomment them. > >Examine the other definitions (COPTFLAGS, NOPORTDOCS and so on) and decide >if they are relevant to you." > >what does this mean? make use of what? the options? how do you know >which option you need? also the format isn't explained which isn't self >explanatory. > >it then goes to talk about /etc and /etc/group and how you need to make >sure that certain groups do exist that might be required for an upgrade. >how do you determine what groups need to exist? > >it then talks about mergemaster... what's mergemaster? the man pages says >it's some tool to help update certain configuration files... but i'm still >unsure on how to use it. > >okay there is mention that one shouldn't use make world anymore... that >make buildworld is prefered... but when i try that i get the following >error codes: > >===> gnu/usr.bin/gperf/doc >/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf/doc created for >/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf/doc >make: don't know how to make bool-array.cc. Stop >*** Error code 2 >1 error >*** Error code 2 >1 error >*** Error code 2 >1 error > > >i mean that entire process... everything on the section is beyond me. >Greg Lehey's version of updating seems much more simple, but even that's >giving these error codes. i prefer to use the handbook's version because >it's more recent. > > Are you also on the "newbie" list....??? Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message