Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:13:22 -0800 From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> To: Sten Daniel Soersdal <netslists@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating older 7.0 to newer sources, local buildworld problems Message-ID: <47960812.8070101@highperformance.net> In-Reply-To: <4795F37B.4040908@gmail.com> References: <4795F37B.4040908@gmail.com>
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Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: > I'm having troubles updating my buildworld and i've had troubles > narrowing it down on google. > > My question is: > > Is there any way i could update the system in the state it is now? > (Preferably without reinstalling the entire system from scratch.) > > PS. I've heard about freebsd-update but never got it to work (see below) I have never used freebsd-update so I can't comment there. I think that's a binary update though. You are trying to build from source. I would use cvsup to update my source tree to 7.0-RELEASE. Since your initial sources are before Sep 19, they are not 7.0-RELEASE. Read about cvsup in the handbook. Look at the example files in /usr/share/examples/cvsup. The I would run 'make clean' and 'make buildworld' all over again. Except for creating a newfs and tweaking files in /etc, building the world is pretty much installing the entire system. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html Be careful about the cvs tag that you use. RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE is what you will eventually want. If that tag has not yet been set by releng@, then you will delete your sources. I recommend '-d 20' with cvsup to protect yourself from accidental deletions. RELENG_7 is probably what you want until 7.0 is actually released. Regards, Jason
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