From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 21 08:04:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDCB816A4B3 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 08:04:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from services.homebass.ca (216.126.94.86 [216.126.94.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E0E843FE9 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 08:04:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from liquid@homebass.ca) Received: (qmail 41144 invoked by uid 85); 21 Sep 2003 15:09:30 -0000 Received: from liquid@homebass.ca by services.homebass.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.60. spamassassin: 2.55. Clear:SA:0(-1.0/5.0):. Processed in 2.986229 secs); 21 Sep 2003 15:09:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO windows) (liquid@homebass.ca@192.168.0.100) by services.homebass.ca with SMTP; 21 Sep 2003 15:09:26 -0000 From: "liquid" To: Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:03:55 -0400 Message-ID: <000001c38051$9b2bef80$6400a8c0@windows> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3F6D0DB7.7306BFA1@dessent.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: RE: question on cvsup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:04:11 -0000 To be completely honest, I don't think it's good "practise" to use cvsup to go from freebsd 4-series to freebsd 5. I use cvsup all the time to stick to the latest -STABLE branch. Others use the -CURRENT branch. If I were to setup a machine and then decide I wanted to use the new 5.1 I'd probably tarball /etc, /usr/local/, /usr/home and /var/qmail and throw them on CD or something and just start from scratch. Of course this is my own opinion, and everyone will share with you different thoughts on this. I don't know for a fact that using cvsup will break anything, I just go by the fact that it's entirely a new release from the ground up and has many different things. HTH, Sandro >=20 > ALIAS wrote: > > > > i read the manual that came with my freebsd4 package. and i see on > the > > website that there's a freebsd5, i want to use cvsup to update my > system to > > version 5, and i don't know how to do that, the manual doesn't > explain it > > well. can someone help me? >=20 > In the supfile that you use with cvsup, there's a line similar to > "*default release=3Dcvs tag=3DRELENG_4_8". This specifies which = version > of > the sources you want to sync to. The handbook has a list of all the > tags at > tags.html> >=20 > But you should also be aware that 5.x (aka CURRENT) is not for > everyone, > you should read the handbook section at > stable.html> > that discusses who should use STABLE and who should use CURRENT. >=20 > Brian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"