From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 13:07:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA27713 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 13:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA27703 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 13:07:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA02419 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 13:07:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 13:07:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Reply-To: Annelise Anderson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading to 2.1.5 versus SUP Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 2.1-S (as of April 25) is running on my office machine and I would like to upgrade this to 2.1.5 (mainly because the kernel core-dumped when I tried to port tcl/tk). The 2.1-S was created using SUP and make world, so I've got all this source code around. I'm wondering whether SUP would get all the 2.1.5 source files or only the ones that have been changed. I ran sup -sfv to find out what it would do and it would receive 1577 files, create 223 new ones, update 433 (mostly, I think) directories, and delete 258 files, primarily but not exclusively games. The results adding the -k or -u switches, which seem to be two ways of saying "newer files only," were identical. By contrast the existing /usr/src directory seems to have over 10,000 files. "Upgrading" (I've already got the floppy files for 2.1.5) would seem quicker and easier, but I've never done an upgrade (versus a full install). Is it correct that these two methods would result in an identical operating system, just without the most recent source code in the case of the upgrade? Annelise