Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 13:32:29 -0400 From: John Cruz <cruzweb@gmail.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: john@cruzweb.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup) Message-ID: <4460D22D.8070001@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17504.52960.813275.969325@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <62b856460605090453o24f7de34ka71fffa392bfdedb@mail.gmail.com> <C60DD298-4A89-4B75-A3AF-88C612C47065@shire.net> <4460CC0B.8050209@gmail.com> <17504.52960.813275.969325@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote:
> John Cruz writes:
>
>
>> So I want to upgrade to 6.1, but I've never used cvsup before and all
>> the documentation is confusing as can be.
>>
>
> What particularly of cvsup do you find confusing?
> On the larger question: it /may/ be easier to do a binary
> upgrade. On the other hand, learning about the
> cvsup/build{world.kernal} process will teach you new and interesting
> things about FreeBSD, and make it easier to recover should something
> go Horribly Wrong.
>
>
> Robert Huff
>
Specifically it would be the supfile stuff, everything I've been reading
says "if you put in the wrong thing here, you can screw the whole system
up", and there aren't a lot of concrete examples, just stuff you can add
to it. So I guess what I need is a supfile example of everything I need
to upadate my kernel and library sources and what not, then I can do a
make world on it later.
-John
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