From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 9 1:27:13 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 ACF4A37B401 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 01:27:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A017D43E4A for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 01:27:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ei1lama@chl.chalmers.se) Received: from d1o280.telia.com (d1o280.telia.com [213.66.84.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA99R5MG012715; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 10:27:05 +0100 (CET) X-Original-Recipient: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from krell.telia.com (h27n2fls32o280.telia.com [217.208.89.27]) by d1o280.telia.com (8.10.2/8.10.1) with ESMTP id gA99R5326454; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 10:27:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.7-RELEASE From: Markus Landgren To: Michael Ritchie Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20021109181410.01a5f338@mail.bigpond.com> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20021109181410.01a5f338@mail.bigpond.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 09 Nov 2002 10:27:18 +0100 Message-Id: <1036834039.359.18.camel@krell.telia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Sat, 2002-11-09 at 09:51, Michael Ritchie wrote: > I am currently working on two FreeBSD 4.6.2 servers, and wish to upgrade to > 4.7-RELEASE. I have tried to find information about performing this task, > but am having trouble trying to grasp exactly what each > distribution "type" of FreeBSD means. -STABLE can be upgraded to using > the (well documented) cvsup, make buildworld, mergemaster etc process, as > can -CURRENT, but it would seem to me that -RELEASE is given out only as > ISO images, as far as I can see. Disclaimer: I am a newbie, so MAKE BACKUPS before following ANY of my advice. I followed the handbook's instructions for -STABLE but replaced "RELENG_4" with "RELENG_4_7" in the cvsupfile, and successfully ended up with 4.7-RELEASE-p1, the patched version of 4.7-RELEASE. If you for some reason need an unpatched 4.7-RELEASE, that is also possible. In that case you need another tag, which I have been told is "RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE". Note: I have not tried that one myself, so I am not sure if that is correct. Good luck! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message