From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 5 9:42:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3029337B66D for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:42:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03147; Thu, 05 Oct 2000 09:41:59 -0700 Message-ID: <39DCAF57.48D6C918@urx.com> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 09:41:59 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Paterson Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Correct sequence for keeping a 4.1 system stable. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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! > > As far as I have researched I need to perform the following actions: > > 1 get the up to date source (using one of the cvs tools) > > 2. make buildworld > > 3. make installworld > > 4. run mergemaster. > > 5. rebuild kernel ??????? > > 6. reboot (and pray!) You need to read /usr/src/UPDATING. It will let you run an installworld before you do a buildkernel but the section on updating 4.x to 4.x-stable suggests the sequence make buildkernel KERNEL=YOUR_KERNEL make installkernel KERNEL=YOUR_KERNEL in between the buildworld and the installworld. YOUR_KERNEL is your kernel config file. I don't have to boot to single user mode before I run my installworld. That isn't always the case. Kent > > is this correct or have I missed something out? I assume that the src from > 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 idea? > > do I need to "clean" after the install to clear all the temporary files? > > thankyou for any advice you can offer. > > regards, > > Jon Paterson. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message