Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:09:22 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Rezamys <rezath@tm.net.my> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade 3.1 release to 3.2 stable via CTM Message-ID: <3765E002.7FD1C821@math.missouri.edu> References: <003401beb6c9$e14aa5c0$081603c8@tmmaster>
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> Rezamys wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Thanks for the mail. Actually I decided to install 3.1 release instead coz I > see it's too much of trouble > upgrading from 2.2.7 to 3.2 stable. Anyways I read alot bout doing CVSUP, > make/build world n other stuff. most people do this way. Unfortunately I have > terrible networks here so i decided to use CTM - took me 10 hours to > download... > > I downloaded (via ftp) the "src-cur.3900xEmpty.gz" source as what I read in > the complete freebsd book by greg lehey. It's about 52759KB. My question, > what next? > > The CTM article in Freebsd site is "not much" of coverage. Any suggestions? > > TQ > OK, I was able to get CTM to work, but not after a little trial and error. I agree that the documentation is not easy to follow. But after it is mastered, CTM is a very easy way to keep up with FreeBSD. Now, I'm sorry to say that you got the wrong file. Your file is pertinant to CURRENT, and you want STABLE. Look in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM/src-3/ or a mirror of such. Download src-3.0100xEmpty.gz and src-3.0101.gz to src-3.0181.gz (or whereever it ends at). Put these files in some directory, say ~me/xxx. Now cd to the directory where you want to put the sources, lets say /usr/src. Make sure that this directory is completely empty. cd /usr/src ctm ~me/xxx/src-* The computer will decode all of the ctm files, and put them into /usr/src. You are ready to start making the world (which is very well described by a link that you will find in the FreeBSD handbook). Notice that in /usr/src, you will see a file called .ctm_status. This contains information as to which ctm file you are up to. So if tomorrow you download src-3.0182.gz and src-3.0183.gz, then typing the command: cd /usr/src ctm ~me/xxx/src-* will cause only src-3.0182.gz and src-3.0183.gz to be applied - it will skip all of the other files. Actually, it is rather clever - if you do something stupid, like miss out one of the files, ctm will figure this out, and will not let you do this. I download them, but only apply the ctm command before I do an actual make world. You want to make sure that the sources match whatever binaries you have, because if you make changes to the kernel, you want to be sure that the kernel binary is in sync with your other binaries. The ports work similarly - in that case, I update the ports directory as soon as I get the ctm files. Just remember, when you do the very first ctm, you must have a *Empty.gz file as your starting point, and the directory into which you apply the ctm must be completely empty. After that, you need never download any more *Empty.gz files. The remaining files are quite small, so downloading them is not so bad. Another thing - if you ever modify one of the files that ctm has placed there, then any later ctm that attempts to modify that file will fail. What I do then is to completely clean out that directory and completely start over. I keep backups of all my ctm files for just that reason. Hope this helps. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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