From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 22 15:13:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8889C16A419 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:13:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcw@highperformance.net) Received: from mx1.highperformance.net (dsl081-163-122.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.163.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6454D13C448 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:13:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcw@highperformance.net) Received: from w16.stradamotorsports.com (w16.stradamotorsports.com [192.168.1.16]) by mx1.highperformance.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0MFDDFs078906; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:13:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcw@highperformance.net) Message-ID: <47960812.8070101@highperformance.net> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:13:22 -0800 From: "Jason C. Wells" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sten Daniel Soersdal References: <4795F37B.4040908@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4795F37B.4040908@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=2.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=failed version=3.1.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.6 (2006-10-03) on s4.stradamotorsports.com Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Updating older 7.0 to newer sources, local buildworld problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:13:16 -0000 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