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Date:      Sat, 03 Feb 2001 19:15:55 GMT
From:      Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it>
To:        "Michael and Lisa" <m-l-r@rcn.com>
Cc:        "BSDQ" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CVS:make buildworld:opps.... now what?
Message-ID:  <20010203.19155500@bartequi.ottodomain.org>
References:  <001701c08d9b$f58ed600$c800a8c0@rcn.com>

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 2/3/01, 5:44:13 AM, "Michael and Lisa" <m-l-r@rcn.com> wrote
regarding CVS:make buildworld:opps.... now what?:


> System: Celeron 500 w/ 128 MB ram and a reasonable disk
> OS: FBSD 3.2-Release


> Well... after careful reading of several 'using CVSup' docs and a few
'using makeworld' docs I ftpd 5.0-current using cvsupit to
> /usr/src. It downloaded overnight and things looked good in the
morning }:)

> I then went to follow "Making the world" your own by Nik Clayton...

>
http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world
.h
tml



<standard make world procedure snipped>


> I then went into /usr/src and tried: make buildworld. It was off to a
running start and then promptly stopped (see scrip snip at
> bottom).



<errors et al. snipped>


-CURRENT is for developers, or for people that (usually) know what
they are doing :-)



Such a **major** upgrade (ie across/between different Release numbers)
is very NONstandard; the "make world" recipe is not even expected to
work in this dangerous wild area :-)

In this connection, a good amount of information is found in the
archives (viz -stable, -questions, but also  -current as of a few
months ago (Jan. - March 2000)). AFAIR, there is a very comprehensive
recipe, which has also been reposted few weeks ago.

Essentially: the more gradual your upgrade is, the better/safer it is.
If you have a powerful enough machine and you wish to spend some time
playing with this process, then go for it. Otherwise, you might
probably want to install one of the more recent snapshots (cf


ftp://ftp<some_one-digit_number>.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/)=
.

Best regards,
Salvo





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