From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 4 3:27:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bean.epix.net (bean.epix.net [199.224.64.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C0537B422 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 03:27:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (clsm-58ppp23.epix.net [209.74.58.23]) by bean.epix.net (8.12.1/2001112001/PL) with SMTP id g14BRSvv016309; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 06:27:29 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200202041127.g14BRSvv016309@bean.epix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dave Kaufman Reply-To: daverk@epix.net To: Kent Stewart , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 4.4 to 4.5? Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 06:26:47 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020204103648.31275.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> <3C5E68EE.9000902@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <3C5E68EE.9000902@owt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Monday 04 February 2002 05:56 am, you wrote: > Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > Is it possible to do an upgrade w/o doing a reinstall? > > > > Would I simply update my ports and then do a "make install"... or is > > there another way? > > > > OR... if someone can point me to a URL that gives the step-by-step > > instructions... that would also help. > > The ports and the OS version aren't coupled. That is why you cvsup > "tag=." for the ports. The instructions for upgrading FreeBSD from 4.4 > > > 4.5 are already on your system. You will find them around line > > 349+/- in /usr/src/UPDATING. > > Kent i don't find UPDATING in /usr/src/ all i find are crypto, kerberos5, kerberosIV, secure and sys. did i not install something? thanks Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message