Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:19:35 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: Deepak Naidu <deepak_nai@yahoo.com> Cc: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making FreeBSD 5.4-Release to FreeBSD 5.4-stable Message-ID: <cb5206420510171019i27d4f091k533b438434220449@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051017170650.20139.qmail@web34610.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <200510171002.37961.ringworm01@gmail.com> <20051017170650.20139.qmail@web34610.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 10/17/05, Deepak Naidu <deepak_nai@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have been to the below link > > ftp://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ > > I cant understand that should I just copy and them in my FreeBSD 5.4 or w= aht to do.. > I have also been in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/hand= book/cutting-edge.html > > even then I cant understand, should I use cvsup with that relaseor stable= tag, there after should I recompile my kernel or rebuild, thats the reason= Iam asking, ist not that I am not taking effort but its not put in easy wa= y... > > If you can help me that would be nice, else no worries :) > >From the box you want to upgrade: # cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui && make install # cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile /root/mycvs Now edit /root/mycvs and set CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org to one of the sites from here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/mycvs Go get a cup of coffee. If there are no errors, continue # cd /usr/src # make -j4 buildworld # make buildkernel # make installkernel # make installworld # mergemaster Here you must read mergemaster carefully # shutdown -r now That's oversimplified, but that's it.
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