Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:19:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, wvaughan@steelerubber.com Subject: Re: Best way to build a "new" AMD64 current Message-ID: <200706141519.l5EFJrFT010097@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <467153D0.9050404@steelerubber.com>
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Walter Vaughan wrote: > What is the best policy to build a new current? I'll erase and start anew. You mean a "virgin" install from scratch, as if the disk was new and empty? In that case I would download a recent 7-current snapshot ISO, install it and update from there with cvsup or csup. The June snapshots have been created and posted to the FTP servers just a few days ago. They're on ftp.freebsd.org and probably on some of the mirrors (but not on all of them). The directory is /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200706. > 1)Using a FreeBSD AMD64 6.2 boot only CD, and doing a minumal install. Yes, you can do that if you have a 6.2 CD at hand. However, I would prefer to start with a fresh 7-current snapshot instead, as explained above. > 2)Then installing pkg_add -r cvsup and getting the /usr/src w/ current You can also use csup instead of cvsup. csup is in the base system, so it doesn't require installing a port. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Perl will consistently give you what you want, unless what you want is consistency." -- Larry Wall
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