Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 22:03:13 -0400 From: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> To: "F. Even" <freebsdlists@elitists.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading 4.0 to stable Message-ID: <3F7CD8E1.6090607@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <BBA23D15.55472%freebsdlists@elitists.org> References: <BBA23D15.55472%freebsdlists@elitists.org>
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The file UPDATING is located in /usr/src, after you cvsup the updated sources. It will occasionally have additional steps that are needed rebuilding the world. You should also look down toward the bottom of this file for a section called COMMON ITEMS and read this. Also, check out section 21.4 of the FreeBSD handbook (on FreeBSD web site). It gives the instructions for synchronizing your sources and rebuilding everything. But, going from 4.0 to -stable is lots of trips to single user mode (necessary when installing userland and using mergemaster to update /etc). It may be better to make the trip and do a fresh install of 4.8 (and then use cvsup to get to 4.9-RC). But, if you really want to do it remotely (and you have remote console access), it is possible to update via the source. But it will be a lot of work. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com F. Even wrote: > My problem being though is the box is about 60 mi. away and I have limited > access to it. I was hoping to be able to pull this off remotely.... > > What I'm basically looking for is guidance on actually doing an upgrade. > > So...when I CVSup, what tags should I do? Do there still exist tags for > RELENG_4_0, or is the next step straight to RELENG_4_3? Can I find the > "UPDATING" document that everyone keeps mentioning on the website anywhere > before I go grabbing source, etc.? I'd really like to find some reading > materials before I just dive into it...it just seems that the materials for > this topic are a little scarce on the site. > > Thanks, > Frank
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