Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:00:26 -0400 From: Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu> To: Thomas M Duffey <cortex@execpc.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tracking stable branch Message-ID: <3958F9CA.478D84CD@math.udel.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10006271349160.24297-100000@earth.execpc.com>
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That's the way I did it, and it worked fine. I used the information in the handbook about making world and cvsup. I used the example supfile, /usr/share/examples/cvsup/4.x-stable-supfile. 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? > > Regards, > > Tom Duffey > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- PETER SCHWENK | Campus IT Associate 3 Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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