From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 7 21:46:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA18272 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA18267 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:46:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA05906; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:46:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:46:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: William Wong cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best way to upgrade to 2.2.5-BETA? In-Reply-To: <199710072130.OAA21745@wiley.csusb.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, William Wong wrote: > Hello all, > > Can cvsup be used to upgrade an existing machine to 2.2.5-snap_date-BETA? > If so, is there also a list of the different tags on the cvsup sites that > I know I can cvsup to? > > If not, is getting the floppies from releng22.freebsd.org and then pointing > the ftp site to releng22.freebsd.org for the latest betas the only way to go? It's probably the best way to go. The betas are regen'd daily, including the latest bugfixes. Upgrade-by-make-world's take some careful merging to keep from busting everything, particularly the kernel rebuild step. I've never done this, it may be easier than it seems to me. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major