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To: "Marius Kirschner" <marius@agoron.com>,
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From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>
Subject: Re: 4.3 to 4.5 upgrade
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At 08:05 PM 4/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>What's the recommended upgrade from 4.3 to 4.5?  The last time I used
>the CD to upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 and it didn't go very smooth.  That's
>the main reason why I haven't upgraded yet.  Thanks,

You can use cvsup to update your source tree, and do a source 
compile/install of your world and kernel.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html

Are good places to start reading.

If you want to install -STABLE, use RELENG_4 as your cvs tag.  If you want 
to install 4.5-RELEASE, use RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE as your cvs tag.  If you 
want 4.5-RELEASE+security_fixes, use RELENG_4_5 as your cvs tag.  See 
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile for an example of a cvsup supfile.

The first update can seem like a bit much, but once you get the hang of it 
things are a snap.

>              ---Marius

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