From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 10 15: 1: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1F5B37B424 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:00:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([fec0::2e0:7dff:fe81:749d]) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14n6Bu-000O3l-00; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:00:50 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3AM0oW16722; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:00:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:00:50 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: FreeBSD Admin Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to track stable Message-ID: <20010410230049.G8173@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Admin wrote: > Can someone point me to a clear step-by-step explanation of how to do > this? I have cvsup'd the stable sources and the ports, but now what? 1. Set KERNCONF=FOO in /etc/make.conf, where FOO is the name of your kernel. 2. cvsup, you say you've done that bit. 3. # cd /usr/src # make buildworld buildkernel # mergemaster (may as well do that while build is running) # shutdown now (go to single user mode) # make installworld installkernel # reboot That should be all you need to do, it normally just works though things can go wrong. Probably best to wait a bit to see if anyone points out something blatantly obvious that I've missed. Anything important you need to do when updating should be listed in /usr/src/UPDATING, so read that. As for ports, most of them should just keep working but you can recompile your installed ports if you want. Things like lsof, if you have it installed, *will* need recompiling because it deals with the kernel very closely (same reason ps, top, etc, need to be recompiled for a new kernel). Good luck! -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message