From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 18 11:05:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20654 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:05:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.westbend.net (ns1.westbend.net [156.46.203.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20648 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:05:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Received: from admin (admin.westbend.net [156.46.203.13]) by mail.westbend.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA08873; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:04:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Message-ID: <002b01be1326$4eff6d00$0dcb2e9c@westbend.net> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: "Jeffrey Vehrs" <70673.3111@compuserve.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-Stable" Subject: Re: CVSup & make world Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:04:46 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0810.800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0810.800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Jeffrey Vehrs <70673.3111@compuserve.com> >Oy! I think I just survived my first cvsup & make world. For some reason, I >don't see if it does update with FreeBSD-stable(2.2.6) or not. > >CVSup is an easy part. Not bad, anyone can do this. Now -- make world is a >long and scary road. I followed Nik Clayton's doc at >www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html. I >didn't really felt confidence after I went thru this. I have no idea what's >working or not. Apparently, I was able to boot up and work on it without >problems so far.(knock on wood) > >Anyway, do "RELEASE #n" tells me that I've updated the system? Right now, >it said #1. Before I did this, it was #0. > No, it means that you have rebuilt the kernel without doing cd /sys/i386/conf ; config , before rebuilding the kernel. If you have cvsup'd to stable your system should be reporting FreeBSD 2.2.x-STABLE. Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message