Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 03:57:36 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> To: edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org (Andrew N. Edmond), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade from 2.1-stable to 2.1.5? Message-ID: <199609221827.DAA09556@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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: I am starting at 2.1-stable (May 17th) and really want to get the damn : Excite Search running on my WWW server, but I need 2.1.5 to run BSDI 2.0 : binaries in a stable fasion (if at all). : However, I have modified the /usr/src/ tree pretty heavily for security : reasons and just really need to update the kernel. Is this possible? Umm... well you can try :) There are situations where userland changes have been incorperated to reflect kernel changes. For example, some of the ip firewall code might have changed, requiring update on the ipfw, or more commonly the kernel structures might have changed (libkvm) requiring a recompile of ps,w,top etc. If your going to modify the tree a lot then thing about using CVS. You can then have your own branches, and checkout/merge changes from the freebsd team over your changes... A place to start would be to grab the commit logs and check everything commited to "sys" after May17th on the RELENG_2_1_0 tree. See what might have changed to make the big "BSDI" difference, and fix your local tree appropriately. Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!
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