From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 25 16:35:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0A7A14D2C for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:35:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 7654 invoked from network); 25 Oct 1999 23:35:41 -0000 Received: from useraf54.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.132.41) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 1999 23:35:41 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA02764; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:36:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:36:26 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Brett Taylor Cc: J McKitrick , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS upgrades... Message-ID: <19991026003626.E316@marder-1> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:18:22PM -0400, Brett Taylor wrote: > 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). The recommendation at http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/faq.html is that you run cvsup(1) first with your current release as the tag to build a checkout file. This is to ensure that the correct files (and all of them) are deleted when you actually u/g. This step took ~2 hours for me, the actual u/g 3.1-R -> 3.3-stable took 33 minutes. > I recommend reading > the make world tutorial: > > > http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html > > Brett > ***************************************************** > Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * > Dept of Chem and Physics * > Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * > Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * > Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * > ***************************************************** > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message