Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:03:14 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Lute Mullenix <lute@cableone.net> Cc: "freebsd-newbies @ FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20021210190314.GK56031@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20021210120359.278ba104.lute@cableone.net> References: <200212090952.21853.pacman@huji.ac.il> <20021209202458.GB56031@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20021210161215.GE1454@gothmog.gr> <20021210120359.278ba104.lute@cableone.net>
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# lute@cableone.net / 2002-12-10 12:03:59 -0600:
> So far I have only done one upgrade, that was from 4.6 to 4.7 and that
> was just the binary upgrade, download the two floppies, boot, yada
> yada. Next go round would like to try a source upgrade, but it sounds
> kind of scary, though I do install all my software via the ports.
> (Mozilla takes a looong time to build) So maybe it won't be that bad,
> but just a little unsure about how you go about getting all the source
> needed.
funny, I've never done a single binary update. :)
anyway, cvsup setup is quite easy, and the reward is sweeeet:
# cd /usr/src
# make update
# make buildworld buildkernel installkernell installworld
# mergemaster -si
# shutdown -r now
(singleuser / reboot in documented places recommended for the faint
of heart :)
I don't know how hard/easy binary update is, but I guess it can't
get much easier than this. (there've been complaints about
mergemaster being too hard to grok, which I don't understand)
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