From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 19 12:11:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A7A37B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:11:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from gate21.fw.porsche.de (gate23.fw.porsche.de [193.174.9.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2652943E88 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:11:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perisa@porsche.de) Received: (qmail 4057 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2002 20:20:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wuxin011.ibd.porsche.de) (141.36.65.1) by 193.197.149.150 with SMTP; 19 Nov 2002 20:20:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 20992 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2002 20:11:43 -0000 Received: from beastie.ibd.porsche.de (HELO porsche.de) (141.36.3.29) by smtp4cli.ibd.porsche.de with SMTP; 19 Nov 2002 20:11:43 -0000 Message-ID: <3DDA9CEB.2050003@porsche.de> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 21:19:55 +0100 From: Marc Perisa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020709 X-Accept-Language: en, de-de, es-es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Enrique Morfin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2questions References: <20021119195802.31430.qmail@web21004.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Enrique Morfin wrote: > Hi! > > 1) how can i update from 4.5 to 4.7 preserving all my > configurations? > By following the documentation. It is written at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html - especially chapter 21.4 "Using make world". mergemaster(8) is the key. It should preserve every change in the configuration of standard FreeBSD files you had done (if used correctly). All others are not touched. Hope that helps Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message