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Date:      Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:10:32 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Adrian Minta <gygy@stsnet.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 8.2 and MPD5 stability issues
Message-ID:  <4E036578.5030307@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <e25d1f42012fe2ccc3de3ea2ecfaeae9.squirrel@mail.stsnet.ro>
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On 6/23/2011 11:56 AM, Adrian Minta wrote:
> 
> Sorry if I miss something, but just started using freebsd, I use mostly
> linux.
> The server use AMD64 flavor and have 4G of RAM.
> RELENG_8 is not the prerelease for 8.0 ? I have 8.2-RELEASE isn't it newer ?
> 

Hi,
	RELENG_8 is the present state of what is in the tree and will
eventually make 8.3-RELEASE.  Its called STABLE, but that means no ABI
changes to the branch.  But you can generally think of it being "stable"
as well in that the goal is to have less bugs then previous versions.

Have a read through

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading.html

Then the broad steps to upgrade your source,
cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile  /tmp

edit the file in tmp and make sure
the line reads as follows for the release

*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8


csup -g -L2 -h cvsup10.freebsd.org  /tmp/stable-supfile

This will pull down all the source for the RELENG_8, the most uptodate
source tree and put it in /usr/src from the cvsup mirror
cvsup10.freebsd.org.  Where you see references to cvsup (the client app)
use instead csup which will do everything you need.

then
cd /usr/src;make -j2 buildworld > b.out;make -j2 buildkernel > b.out.k

If all goes well, you will see in b.out at the end

--------------------------------------------------------------
>>> World build completed on Wed Jun 22 07:10:37 EDT 2011
--------------------------------------------------------------

and

--------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Kernel build for GENERIC completed on Wed Jun 22 07:18:49 EDT 2011
--------------------------------------------------------------

Then follow the steps to install the kernel and world

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html


	---Mike


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