Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 16:31:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Hechinger <wonko@users.tmok.com> To: oberman@es.net (Kevin Oberman) Cc: fosburgh@flash.net, drek@zupa.bigstudios.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates Message-ID: <200006062031.QAA04163@entropy.tmok.com> In-Reply-To: <200006062000.e56K0Zn13721@ptavv.es.net> from Kevin Oberman at "Jun 6, 2000 1: 0:35 pm"
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Kevin Oberman drunkenly mumbled... > > 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. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > i thank you and jonathan for the info, i'll do a backup of the system before i attempt this. :) i would only be going to 3.4-stable to 4.0-release if i were to use the cd, but if i take a chance (why not, you only live once) and do it with cvsup and make, i'd be going from -stable to -stable (since the first thing i do after installing -release is to cvsup -stable and rebuild) cheers, -brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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