From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 5 19:39:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F059C37B401 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 19:39:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from above.proper.com (mail.proper.com [208.184.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C55843F3F for ; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 19:39:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Received: from [63.202.92.152] (adsl-63-202-92-152.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.92.152]) by above.proper.com (8.12.9/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h363dgJN020732; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 19:39:42 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: phoffprop@mail.proper.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200304052156.04683.taxman@acd.net> References: <200304052156.04683.taxman@acd.net> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 19:15:45 -0800 To: taxman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Paul Hoffman Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Re: Updating /usr/src after updating 4.7->4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 03:39:50 -0000 At 9:56 PM -0500 4/5/03, taxman wrote: >On Saturday 05 April 2003 09:26 pm, Paul Hoffman wrote: >> Greetings again. On a test machine, I upgraded from fairly vanilla >> 4.7 to 4.8 using CD-ROM and /stand/sysintall. At the beginning of the >> upgrade, it told me that it would not upgrade /usr/src. After the >> upgrade, I see by the dates that it upgraded some of /usr/src, but >> not most of it. >> >> What is the proper way to bring /usr/src up to date so that I can >> make kernel mods? > >cvsup is one of the most common ways. You need to install it first. See >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html I was assuming that there was a way to get it off the CD-ROM. Is that not true?