From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 5 9:11:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta01.chello.no (mta01.chello.no [212.186.255.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BFF537B66E for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:11:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c76-s10-r13h3.upc.chello.no ([212.186.234.76]) by mta01.chello.no (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 77df2db80a2bdce4d335ff4839618d42) with ESMTP id <20001005161159.OOQF3527.mta01@c76-s10-r13h3.upc.chello.no>; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +0200 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 18:16:47 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein_Skundberg?= X-Sender: eskimo@igloo.chello.no To: Jon Paterson Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Correct sequence for keeping a 4.1 system stable. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Jon Paterson wrote: > If these seem like trivial questions please do not flame me, I have never > attempted to do this before and do not want to damage a working system! >=20 > As far as I have researched I need to perform the following actions: >=20 >=20 > 1 get the up to date source (using one of the cvs tools) >=20 > 2. make buildworld >=20 > 3. make installworld >=20 > 4. run mergemaster. >=20 > 5. rebuild kernel ??????? Yes, you should always build a new kernel with the same sources with which you built world. Use the make installkernel/buildkernel method. >=20 > 6. reboot (and pray!) By all means, but it's usually not necessary :) >=20 > is this correct or have I missed something out? I assume that the src fr= om > the updates are for the system only, and not any changes to any of the > ports. Do I / can I keep the ports up to date also? or is this a bad ide= a? Not at all. You need this=20 *default release=3Dcvs tag=3D. in your ports-supfile. =20 > do I need to "clean" after the install to clear all the temporary files? I use to rm -rf /usr/obj/* before a new buildworld.=20 =D8S. --=20 Thank you. I feel so much better now. =09=09=09=09http://www.determinism.com yskundbe@chello.no=09*=09http://home.chello.no/~yskundbe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message