From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 30 11:44:42 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 011E316A4BF for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:44:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from astra.telenet-ops.be (astra.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C0BC44003 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:44:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n.b@myrealbox.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by astra.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id D9FF337EE4; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:44:39 +0200 (MEST) Received: from cronos.home.vsb (d5153CAA6.kabel.telenet.be [81.83.202.166]) by astra.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id A33CC37EE3; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:44:39 +0200 (MEST) From: Guy Van Sanden To: Kent Stewart In-Reply-To: <200308300934.32970.kstewart@owt.com> References: <1062259088.2854.10.camel@cronos.home.vsb> <200308300934.32970.kstewart@owt.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1062269079.3218.14.camel@cronos.home.vsb> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4-1tex Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:44:39 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 18:44:42 -0000 Ah, I indeed forgot the system information. It is a P II 333 MHZ with 256 of RAM and an UDMA 33 HD (40 GB). Judging from your timings, this is going to take a while... Does buildworld and installworld always take equally long, even say only 10 files changed? Are there any pitfalls I should be aware of (seeing that this would be the first time I attempt such a thing). On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 18:34, Kent Stewart wrote: > 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