Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:57:36 -0600 From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: "jett tayer" <tayerv@ph.inter.net>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: being FreeBSD-stable Message-ID: <023701c0a1af$f5489fa0$7d7885c0@genroco.com> References: <008701c0a1a9$a6968080$4b443dca@x4o7r5>
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From: "jett tayer" <tayerv@ph.inter.net>
> im a new user of FreeBSD and i want to know the step by step
> procedure on how to make my FreeBSD-RELEASE become
> FreeBSD-stable. Is this possible?
>
There are several ways to get bring your sources up from -RELEASE to -STABLE
(CVS, CVSUP, CTM).
I keep my sources up to date with CVSUP, so you would need to do the
following:
1. Install the CVSUP client:
A. From a port:
cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup
make install
B: From a package:
pkg_add cvsup-16.1.tgz
2. Edit /etc/make.conf
Add/uncomment the following make variables in your /etc/make.conf:
SUP_UPDATE= yes
SUP= /usr/local/bin/cvsup
SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2
SUPHOST= cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
SUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
NOTE: set SUPHOST to a local CVSUP mirror.
See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html#CVSUP-MIRRORS
3. Update sources/ports
cd /usr/src
make update
NOTE: You may want to check /usr/src/Makefile.inc1 for SUPHOST,
if it is missing then add "-h ${SUPHOST}" to your SUPFLAGS
in make.conf.
4. Read /usr/src/UPDATING before proceeding
5. Build the world:
make buildworld
6. Building a new kernel
A. Create your kernel config file:
cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
cp GENERIC MYKERNEL
vi MYKERNEL
NOTE: Add/Remove drivers that are needed/unused from MYKERNEL
B. Build the kernel
cd /usr/src
make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
7. Install the kernel
make installkernel
8. Install the world:
make installworld KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
NOTE: It is recommended that you boot to single user mode before
installing world
9. Merge the config changes (/etc/*, /dev/MAKEDEV, ...)
mergemaster
NOTE: read the man page on mergemaster to understand what it does.
Scot
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