From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 24 12:40: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1DD137B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C0B943E42 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:40:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tsaleh@scs.uiuc.edu) Received: from user-112053p.dsl.mindspring.com ([66.32.20.121] helo=pheonix.tammer.net) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17tvX5-0006ix-00; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:39:43 -0700 Received: by pheonix.tammer.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 89F88199; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:39:35 -0700 From: Tammer Saleh To: Erick Mechler Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: migration to 4.6.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <20020924193935.GA19972@pheonix.tammer.net> Mail-Followup-To: Tammer Saleh , Erick Mechler , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020924192009.GA19938@pheonix.tammer.net> <20020924193129.GX8892@techometer.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020924193129.GX8892@techometer.net> x-gpg-fingerprint: C552 643D 5BE8 756B 0EFD BE66 00E5 8494 5BD6 BA13 x-gpg-key: http://scs.uiuc.edu/~tsaleh/cv/tsaleh.at.scs.uiuc.edu.pub User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Great. I just needed some reasurance on that point. Thank you very much for the advice. tammer ----------- In reply to Erick Mechler, who wrote... ----------- > :: 1) Is this possible? >=20 > Sure, anything's possible :) >=20 > :: 2) What is the correct method? >=20 > Edit your supfile and change the tag to 'RELENG_4_6_2_RELEASE'. Re-sup= =20 > your source, and then follow the instructions in the handbook for upgradi= ng=20 > your system from source: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html >=20 > :: 3) Is this a particularly painful procedure? >=20 > Not at all, as long as you follow the instructions, do mergemaster (many > people forget to do this), and read UPDATING before you begin. >=20 > :: PS: I have already tried to find what I need in both the handbook a= nd > :: the faq, but to no real end. I've only found instructions for keepi= ng > :: up-to-date with a single release track (such as RELEASE, STABLE, = or > :: CURRENT), and nothing for changing tracks. >=20 > The available cvs tags are located in Appendix A.7. These are kept pretty > well up-to-date. >=20 > Cheers - Erick --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9kL93AOWElFvWuhMRAlOsAJ9L+nalFNt0n/8S9rQ743X7d1Rr8ACfTBCM 2FUNIPKGt24x2mTN5uyV3nQ= =liWc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message