From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 1 10:20:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E04BA16A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:20:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D8DB43D45 for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:20:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phil.brennan@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 1so519316rny for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:20:09 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gLzgSCI6OFz1HGzj8S03522wfMT1O4pCLaGoqvrkaRMJDyoEBq9eW7J4QS9zmIZMhYktODkFWIaGjl+3xStk47WFQg0to2bvb6QvanFdTo2I6QLVnjMnZzUQZxxUOGUpzCxJT5hsEqzkpz7kNz7MeBwfRgGk0QvER/nkgVuNGnc= Received: by 10.38.26.4 with SMTP id 4mr2230456rnz; Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:20:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.179.65 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 02:20:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 11:20:09 +0100 From: Phil Brennan To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: updating from 5.2.1 to RELENG_5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Phil Brennan List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:20:10 -0000 As per subject, I need to do this urgently, but with minimum downtime. Will it be ok just to cvsup, rebuild kernel and world, mergemaster, (etc) like any normal update? Or do I have to do a reinstall? Any help appreciated. Regards, Philip Brennan