From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 30 09:34:36 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 171E416A4BF for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEB2043FF3 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h7UGYX212985; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:34:33 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: Guy Van Sanden , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:34:32 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <1062259088.2854.10.camel@cronos.home.vsb> In-Reply-To: <1062259088.2854.10.camel@cronos.home.vsb> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308300934.32970.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: Upgrade 5.0 to 5.1 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: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:34:36 -0000 On Saturday 30 August 2003 08:58 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > How would I best upgrade my 5.0 installation to 5.1? > > I have done binary (CD-ROM) updates on 4.x in the past, but I was > thinking this could be done using cvsup. > > Can anyone briefly say wheter this procedure would be right: > - change default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_0 to RELENG_5_1 > - cvsup the new sources > - follow instructions to buildworld+installworld in Chapter 21 of the > handbook. > > Any ideas how long this would take ? > It is totally a function of your computer. Since, you didn't provide that information, we can only provide information on our personal systems. I follow current, since I don't think 5.x is up to 4.x release quality at this point. I don't think it is far off, just not quite there. A buildworld, which is the longest part of an upgrade, requires 50+ minutes on my AMD 1600+ with 512 MB of DDR-266 memory and 3 ATA-100 HDs. Having less memory won't affect the build time unless you produce swaping. Having both /usr/src and /usr/obj on the same HD will also increase compile times. The buildkernel probably takes on the order of 10 minutes since it is long enough that I won't sit there to watch and I haven't timed my build script. The installs probably take less than 5 minutes. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html