From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 13:17:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mdanderson.org (mail.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.87.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 712E337B81B for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:17:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fosburgh@flash.net) Received: from jefnt (jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.64.202]) by mail.mdanderson.org (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA24054; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 15:11:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <02b201bfcff3$d060f180$ca406f8f@mdacc.tmc.edu> From: "Jonathan Fosburgh" To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: , , References: <200006062000.e56K0Zn13721@ptavv.es.net> Subject: Re: softupdates Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 15:14:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Oberman" To: "Jonathan Fosburgh" Cc: ; ; Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 3:00 PM Subject: Re: softupdates > > From: "Jonathan Fosburgh" > > Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:44:49 -0500 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brian Hechinger" > > To: "Jonathan Fosburgh" > > Cc: ; > > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 2:25 PM > > Subject: Re: softupdates > > > > I did a source upgrade from 3.4-STABLE to 4.0-RELEASE using the instructions > > in src/UPDATING. If you do a source upgrade MAKE SURE you follow the > > instructions to the letter. You might also look in the archives as several > > people posted instructions on their websites. These can be used to augment > > the instructions in UPDATING if you want clarification. In particular, if > > you go to -RELEASE, I believe the instructions were presented in a rather > > confusing format (placing subsets of instructions out of order, for > > instance.) > > I just did the update from 3.4-STABLE to 4.0-STABLE yesterday and I > agree that you need to follow the instructions for updating > closely. But I would strongly suggest against going to RELEASE. The > number of fixes in STABLE is huge and the update process is much > cleaner. > > Aside from a mistake on my part, the update went very smoothly. I > recommend it. On my 450 MHz K6-II the buildworld took about 2.5 hours, > and the cvsup took forever (best with a fast network connection!), but > the rest only took about 2 hours. I upgraded within days (maybe a week) of 4.0-RELEASE and so I stuck with that one until -STABLE settled down a bit. No problems with -RELEASE anyway and I haven't upgraded in a month or more. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message