From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 8 00:33:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA28712 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:33:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA28702 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:33:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA20944; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:32:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Reply-To: Annelise Anderson 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? As I understand it, there's only one tag for this branch: RELENG_2_2 It seems the cvsup repository is updated a few times a day. What you'd get from cvsup versus the beta might be a little different or it might be identical. It's really a question of whether you want to do a make world and build the system yourself or whether you want to do an upgrade with binaries. If you use cvsup and get the sources, make sure /etc/group has a group called network before you start--if it doesn't add: network:*:69: Either approach requires some attention to /etc, especially if you're upgrading from 2.1.x and thus switching from /etc/sysconfig to /etc/rc.conf. If you have a custom kernel you probably have to recompile it in both cases. Annelise > > 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? > > -- > William T. Wong > Phone: (909) 880-7281 > email: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu >