From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 13 03:46:35 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 220CE16A421 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:46:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from darklight.org.ru (ipv6.darklight.org.ru [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:84::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D240413C49D for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:46:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from darklight.org.ru (yuri@darklight.org.ru [IPv6:::1]) by darklight.org.ru (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id lAD3kMcS005076; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:46:22 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by darklight.org.ru (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id lAD3kLff005075; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:46:21 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: darklight.org.ru: yuri set sender to yuri.pankov@gmail.com using -f From: Yuri Pankov To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:46:20 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <005301c825a2$6d762c90$6600a8c0@hal2000> In-Reply-To: <005301c825a2$6d762c90$6600a8c0@hal2000> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711130646.20986.yuri.pankov@gmail.com> Cc: Nic Reveles Subject: Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.4 to 5.5 STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:46:35 -0000 On Tuesday 13 November 2007 06:08:10 Nic Reveles wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to update my version of FreeBSD from 5.4 to 5.5-STABLE. This > is one of the many things I've yet to get my feet wet with yet, and so I'm > not entirely sure what it is I am doing. I've made a backup of my most > critical work. > > Some links I've found describing this process: > 1. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > 2. http://www.nabble.com/Upgrading-FreeBSD-Questions-t4716949.html > > So far I've run cvsup with a line in it: > *default tag=RELENG_5_5_0_RELEASE > > After a long time it said that it finished successfully. Regardless, I'm > not sure if the line I used is correct to get 5.5 STABLE. No, correct tag for 5-STABLE is RELENG_5 (or, if by "5.5 STABLE" you mean 5.5 with security patches, tag should be RELENG_5_5). See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html > > Then I ran: > % make buildworld > > ===> gnu/usr.bin/cvs/contrib > sed -e 's,@CSH@,/bin/csh,' -e 's@PERL@,/usr/bin/perl,' > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/contrib/../../../../contrib/cvs/contrib/Makefile.. >in > Makefile "Makefile", line 15: Need an operator > make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in usr/src/gnu/usr.bin. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in usr/src/gnu. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in usr/src. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in usr/src. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in usr/src. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in usr/src. > I've seen this error before, it has something to do with timestamps in src/contrib/cvs (I've copied source tree using cp). Try removing /usr/src/contrib/cvs directory and cvsup again. > Unfortunately, I typed all that out by hand and so it is quite possible > there is a typo or two, but that is the general jist of it all. Is there > someone who knows what is going on with this? All answers/tips are greatly > appreciated! > > Nic R. Yuri