From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 30 09:40:17 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 554D616A4BF for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chomsky.sohotech.ca (ottawa-hs-64-26-169-251.s-ip.magma.ca [64.26.169.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B77343F93 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:40:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vmsmith@grokking.org) Received: from conrad.sohotech.ca (conrad.sohotech.ca [192.168.1.2]) by chomsky.sohotech.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7UGeErt020330 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:40:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from vmsmith@grokking.org) Received: from tolkien.sohotech.ca ([192.168.1.11]) by conrad.sohotech.ca with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:40:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:40:42 -0400 From: Val Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030830124042.3e742123.vmsmith@grokking.org> In-Reply-To: <1062259088.2854.10.camel@cronos.home.vsb> References: <1062259088.2854.10.camel@cronos.home.vsb> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Aug 2003 16:40:14.0041 (UTC) FILETIME=[62E0EC90:01C36F15] 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 16:40:17 -0000 I did it just as you're proposing a few weeks ago. It took about 2 hours total on my PIII 500, NOT including port upgrades (which incidentally took about 30 hours for everything I have installed!). Don't forget to run "mergemaster" at the end; I think there were some changes between the two versions if memory serves me well... Hope that helps, VS On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:58:08 +0200 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 ? > > Thanks in advance > > Guy > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"