From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 27 4:46:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0556737B401 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 04:46:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE4A743E3B for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 04:46:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 12:41:44 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 185miZ-0001Vp-00; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 12:40:35 +0000 Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 12:40:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg Cc: "W. D." , freebsd-questions , Dan Pelleg Subject: Upgrading (was) Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3DB7AE43.7050307@401.cx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > An upgrade consists of the following commands: > 'cvsup -g -L2 stable-supfile && cd /usr/src/ && make buildworld && > make buildkernel KERNCONF=whatever && make installkernel > KERNCONF=whatever && make installworld && reboot' > Theoretically you could just paste those lines into a shellscript, > make a crontab entry and be done Nope. If you're tracking -STABLE, an upgrade isn't guaranteed to be automatable like this - you should check /usr/src/UPDATING. You're also missing any calls to mergemaster to update your configuration files. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Rereleasing dolphins into the wild since 1998. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message