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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:18:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>
To:        J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CVS upgrades...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910251316520.7133-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910251653290.66464-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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Hi,

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote:

> i'm running 3.2 on a laptop, and i would like some of the features in
> 3.3. Is there a way to do a selective upgrade?  As you all know by
> now, my ISP connection is unreliable, and i would hate to start a 3
> hours download and have it cut out every 20 minutes.  I am mostly
> interested in APM and Linux-compat upgrades, as well as bug fixes.

Run cvsup - it won't take long (it only updates the files that have
changed so you're not downloading all the source).  I recommend reading
the make world tutorial:


http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html

Brett
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