From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 27 12: 0:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D47137C29E for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:00:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schwenk@math.udel.edu) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA18112; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:00:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3958F9CA.478D84CD@math.udel.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:00:26 -0400 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas M Duffey Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tracking stable branch References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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