From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 20 7:57:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE15037B403 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 07:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 18921 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Oct 2001 14:57:18 -0000 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 16:57:18 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple (possibly stupid) question Message-ID: <20011020165717.C29781@md2.mediadesign.nl> Mail-Followup-To: stable@freebsd.org References: <01102008243301.00419@c595663-a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01102008243301.00419@c595663-a> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 08:14:37AM -0600, Joe Warner wrote: > > Hi, > > A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded from 4.2-RELEASE > to 4.4-STABLE and I understand this process quite well now. > > I'm still a newbie at this and this might be a stupid question but.. > > If I've taken the steps here: > > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/cvsup.html This only updates the _source_, not the system itself > > ..and I run /usr/local/bin/cvsrun each week, > > do I need to do this: > > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/mw.html > > ..each time, after running cvsrun? It includes updating the source using cvsup (you don't have to do it again if you already cvsup-ed just before), creating make.conf (only need to be done once). Cleaning /usr/obj and runing make buildworld/kernel should be done everytime you want to update your system (no real need to do this every week, I usually do it after some big change I like, f.e. dirpref). If you make your custom kernel, instead of GENERIC, you really have to create this config once (eventually you have to update it when things in the kernel change). The steps really are: cvsup your source, make buildworld/kernel (possibly with custom config), make installworld configuring using make.conf (look in /etc/defaults/make.conf for examples) and the kernel config (/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and LINT for examples) only has to be done once. Read also: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html > > I've read through the handbook/FAQ a bunch of times, searched > the archives and the web and so far, haven't found anything that > confirms this. HTH, Alson -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: alson@flutnet.org < > School: alson@gymnasiumleiden.nl < `-------------------------------------------' If I knew it wasn't going to work, I would have tested it sooner. --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message