From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 18:36:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA03582 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 18:36:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA03561 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 18:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.Stanford.EDU by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA13279 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 5 Aug 1996 17:06:01 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA07095; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 16:53:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 16:53:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: John Clark Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ready for 2.1-STABLE -> 2.1.5-RELEASE (best way?) In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960805151522.0099cffc@netview.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, John Clark wrote: > Hello again fellow FreeBSD-ers... > > > The following is from the INSTALL.TXT file of the 2.1.5-RELEASE: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > What this upgrade will attempt to do is best summarized thusly: > > 1. fsck and mount all file systems chosen in the label editor. > 2. Ask for a location to preserve your /etc directory into and do so. > 3. Extract all selected distributions on top of your existing system. > 4. Copy certain obvious files back from the preserved /etc, leaving the > rest of the /etc file merge up to the user. > 5. Drop user in a shell so that they may perform that merge before > rebooting into the new system. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > It would seem to me the best way to do this would be to fetch the entire > /usr/src subdir and 'make world' -- like I did when I went 2.1-RELEASE -> > 2.1-STABLE. Anyone else try this / see a problem? Where do I find the > /usr/src? > I did this--I used the sup program to get the sources. This is a package you can get and install; you can comment out the distributions you don't want. Since sup only gets new sources, if this is how you did it before, it won't take as long just to get the updated ones. This (and the make world and kernel recompile) leave /etc alone, so you have to do this yourself. But my system's been running fine with old /etc and everything else 2.1.5, and I'm gradually getting the /etc stuff updated. > Thanks again, > John Clark > [jc@netview.net] Annelise