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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:58:27 +0200
From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To: Thomas M Duffey <cortex@execpc.com>
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Tracking stable branch
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On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 01:49:38PM -0500, Thomas M Duffey wrote:
> Dear FreeBSD Users,
> 
> I'm fairly new to FreeBSD (although I have years of experience with
> Slackware, kinda similar...) and have recently come across a FreeBSD 
> 4-RELEASE machine that was setup almost right when the 4-RELEASE branch 
> emerged.  I would like to merge any updates committed to the stable branch 
> to this installation.  Unfortunately, I've only been on this list now for 
> a few days so I'm not aware of any special instructions required to 
> perform the upgrade.  Is there an archive of issues requiring special 
> attention anywhere?  Or is it safe to just go ahead and perform the
> upgrade using cvsup?

Read the handbook regarding updating, and to the cvsup, make buildworld,
make installworld, and rebuild your kernel, and you should be done.

/Jesper

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