From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 21:15:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DB7037B400; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:15:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g0B5F8O16155; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:15:08 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200201110515.g0B5F8O16155@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "uwi mAn" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: release to stable upgrade In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:15:08 -0700 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 Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:36:42 -0500 "uwi mAn" wrote: +------------------ | ive never done that before.... heh | Is it painless? I dont mind having BSD 4.4 Stable instead of Release. +------------------ Tracking -stable is probably not painless depending on your definition of pain. Here is a description of my experience. It took about 20 minutes reading to figure out how cvsup works. Then about another 40 minutes to cvsup the sources the first time. Maybe 10 to 30 minutes to cvsup each time after that. I then follow a procedure something like the following. Read through the /usr/src/README and /usr/src/UPDATING merge my kernel conf file with the most recent GENERIC. make buildworld; make buildkernel KERNCONF=XXX; make installkernel KERNCONF=XXX; make instalworld; reboot; This all takes about an hour on my old AMD-K6. But it is mostly unattended. Then I run mergemaster and do a final reboot to be sure that most everything is up to date. I've been tracking -stable for at least two years now. I do this about once every two or three months. Occasionally there have been changes to the procedure. Like when the kernel building convention changed. While it has worked quite well for me YMMV. -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message