Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:47:47 +0200 From: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help: Upgrading from 4.9 to 4.10 using cvsup Message-ID: <40BE2EE3.5040100@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20040602182855.90414.qmail@web51603.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040602182855.90414.qmail@web51603.mail.yahoo.com>
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Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > > <snip> > > The handbook said that I should use the stable-supfile > if I wanted to upgrade to the latest stable release.. Indeed. However, if you're looking for the 4.10 RELEASE, edit stable-supfile, find the line that has "tag=RELENG_4" and change it to "tag=RELENG_4_10". This will get you 4.10-RELEASE with all the latest security patches (as opposed to 4-STABLE). > Questions: > > In the stable-supfile, I can see these lines... > > src-all (uncommented by default) > #src-base > #src-bin > #src-contrib > #src-etc > #src-games > #src-gnu > #src-include > #src-kerberos5 > #src-kerberosIV > #src-lib > #src-libexec > #src-release > #src-sbin > #src-share > #src-sys > #src-tools > #src-usrbin > #src-usrsbin > > If I comment the first line(src-all) which of the > following lines should I uncomment out to attain the > minimum possible download?(i'm just using a dial-up) If you comment out src-all, always, ALWAYS uncomment src-base, regardless of what other packages you uncomment. Otherwise you'll end up with a useless /usr/src. On a sidenote, this goes for the ports and docs as well. Commenting *-all requires uncommenting *-base at the very least. But I digress. For the minimal download that would leave you a useable system, I'd uncomment -base, -bin, -lib, -libexec, -sbin, -sys, -usrbin and -usrsbin, although I admit I may be missing something (or adding too much) here, I'm not entirely sure. > And one last thing... > > The procedure that I've done before using the > /stand/sysinstall/-upgrade.... > I don't know really know what happened in my system.. > somebody said that after doing that, he thinks that > I'm already 80% upgraded.. and the only thing that > might be missing in my system is the 4.10 kernel it > self. > > If it is nearly correct, can I just download this > kernel and install it instead of doing the whole cvsup > download? If this is correct, then uncommenting src-base and src-sys above should suffice. Maybe you need to uncomment src-include as well, I'm not certain. At any rate, this is a much smaller download than the above mentioned, so maybe you should try this first? For rebuilding your kernel, check out the handbook. > And if this is possible.. please, I also really wanted > to learn how to recompile my whole system using the > cvsup... any tips about uncommenting those lines and > the proper supfile to use will be very much > appreciated.. Fiddle around with the uncommenting (but always leave src-base uncommented) so that you get what you think you need, make sure that the proper settings are set in /etc/make.conf so that you don't try to build anything for which you do not have the sources (check out /etc/defaults/make.conf for clues as to what kind of control you have) and build away. > Thanks a lot > -jay You're very welcome! -Henrik W Lund
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