From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 15 23:10:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA20027 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 23:10:17 -0700 Received: from ain.charm.net (ain.charm.net [198.69.35.206]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA20021 ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 23:10:14 -0700 Received: (from nc@localhost) by ain.charm.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA11983; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 02:04:01 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 02:04:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Network Coordinator To: Terry Lee cc: jkh@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installing a new snap In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > What's the best way to install a new snap over and old snap? > I've been backing up my /etc directory, then either using the fixit option > from the boot disk, or just running /stand/scripts/bininst.sh and > reinstalling every package that has changed. Then I restore my /etc > directory. > > I'm worried that if there are any changes in the standard /etc, I won't > be getting them. > > Is there a better way to do this? I tried basically the same thing, running extract.sh off of the release off of NFS, especially the source directory because I am having a strange problem when I try to compile the kernel (it says it doesn't understand the %CLEAN directive in the generic makefile [which hasn't changed] and can't find a number of the scsi command prototypes). So I've been running with -current sources that I sup up-to-date, and I assumed something was wrong [missing file or such] with them so I installed the 0412 sources over them (so all the include directories would get updated) and am still having the same problem. Did I make a mistake or is that pretty much the only way to go about it? Thanks, -Jerry.