From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 12: 1:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web11804.mail.yahoo.com (web11804.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EB9B37B405 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20011019190135.28605.qmail@web11804.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.73.64.94] by web11804.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:01:35 PDT Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:01:35 -0700 (PDT) From: X Philius Reply-To: xphilius@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Best upgrade path from 4.1 Release to 4.4 Release, via CVsu To: jslivko@4evermail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon, Thanks for the reply. I did follow up on Stan's answer (which was to upgrade to 4.2 Release first, and then upgrade to 4.4) and I made it through the 'make buildworld' stage on my develompent machine with no stops. However this kind of defeats the purpose of getting my real server upgraded while spending as little time as possible in the closet by the router ;-) since I would have to wait through a build from 4.2 to 4.4, while sitting on boxes of copier paper. I liked the idea of upgrading via CVsup, since you can do most of the work remotely and only have to drop into single user for the last few steps. Your reply brings up two questions for me. 1. Why not just upgrade to 4.4 R via binaries using sysinstall? Both my machines boot fine off of my 4.1 CD's, so I can boot off the CD and upgrade that way. I am trying to learn how to do it the geek way, via source etc, so I can follow the security upgrades better, but since I have hit a road block, why not just use the installer? 2. Considering I am not a developer, is there a good reason to start tracking 4.4 stable yet? I was planning on upgrading to 4.4 Release and then doing the minimum to follow up on security upgrades and patches. Since our beloved OS is so damn stable, I'd rather concentrate on using my server, then spending a lot of time keeping up with the very latest. Thanks much! Jason --- jslivko@4evermail.com, UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR. wrote: > Jason, > > It might be easier to just wipe the machine down, install 4.4-RELEASE > from FTP (if you have the bandwidth) and then CVSup to 4.4-STABLE. > That seems the logical thing to do, there is also the least chance of > things breaking along the way. Remember 4.1-RELEASE is quite a few > months old, if not more. -- Jonathan > > --- X Philius wrote: > > Folks, > > I'm running into problems running 'make buildworld' after syncing > my source via CVsup to 4.4 Release, currently running 4.1 Release. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message