From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 27 15:23:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from steeltoe.niceboots.com (steeltoe.niceboots.com [208.25.85.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C66037B40E for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:23:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tenebrae@localhost) by steeltoe.niceboots.com (8.11.3/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f8RMN0711442; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:23:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:23:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Tenebrae Reply-To: tenebrae_BSD@niceboots.com To: "Russell P. Sutherland" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading from the source In-Reply-To: <200109272142.f8RLgTb27606@glob.csl.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Mike Hogsett wrote: > > 3. Given a neo-phyte at the helm, is the pre-building from > > source method easier that the upgrade option with the > > FreeBSD 4.4 CD. > > I found cvsup'ing and building from source to be completely painless, > although your mileage may vary. Same here. I'm a perpetual newbie and found cvsup to be frighteningly easy to deal with... I still boggle at the ease of upgrading my server from 4.1.1-RELEASE to 4.3-STABLE. There MUST be some horrible painful memory I'm trying to block out! ;) -Tenebrae. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message