From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 27 12:19:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC3037B642 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:18:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.188]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.2) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:20:17 -0700 Message-ID: <3958FE19.387E4B7@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:18:49 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en 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 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? You need to use the 4.x-stable-supfile. It can be found in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/4.x-stable-supfile. This keeps your system up todate on the both crypto and the source. A default 4.0 install probably has some crypton turned on and you probably have to have both present before the buildworld will work. The /etc has changed quite a bit but mergemaster will take care of that once you have finished doing the installworld and kernel install. I don't let mergemaster upgrade my /etc/hosts or group files. That is a quick way to lose all of your users. I personally do a buildworld, config, the makes and install the kernel and reboot to single user mode to finish the installworld. My reasoning is that if your new kernel doesn't work, you can recover using your /kernel.old if you haven't done an installworld first. The handbook has a section on "Making the world your own", which covers all of this. The kernel and the world are a matched pair. Once you cvsup your sources, you can't expect to just build a new kernel and have it work. Since it is you and not me, not doing both may work :). A buildworld of 4.0-stable requires around 4000 seconds on my P-II 400 machines. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message