From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 7 22:40: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nanguo.chalmers.com.au (gateway.chalmers.com.au [203.1.96.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3965337B698 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:39:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from carbon (carbon.chalmers.com.au [203.1.96.26]) by nanguo.chalmers.com.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f186Zdo01028 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:35:39 +1000 (EST) From: "Robert" To: "FreeBSD" Subject: I think I understand how I stay STABLE now, without a lot of hassel! correct me if I'm wrong. Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:35:00 +1000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think I've worked it out finally. I updated from 4.0-RELEASE to 4.2-STABLE using cvsup. src-all, ports-all and doc-all. But I have been wondering about this, because even if you do another cvsup on a daily basis, new files will be pulled down. I'd been thinking 'how can one do this - it would need a complete build every night!!!' Of course it doesn't - silly me. What it does mean is that even if one does a cvsup on a weekly basis say, then the _sources_ are always up to date, and IF one then needs to do an update/upgrade/kernel build whatever, then one is always using the latest sources. Now THAT makes sense. So I can go ahead an set up a cron job, that simply calls the cvsup/supfile say once a week. Everything works fine now. I had a brand new Acer keyboard - and it simply would not be recognised by the start up. Put in an "old" keyboard, and away it went no worries. I still haven't found out what the probelm is with the keyboard stuff, but I know I'm not the only one with this probelm !!! That needs looking into. but 4.2-STABLE is sure the bees knees. Now to find out how to bring my 2.2-SNAP server up to the same level !!! bc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message