Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 23:21:49 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Ralph Dratman <ralph@maxsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libintl.so.2 problems (REPOST: wrong subject and recipient) Message-ID: <20030522042149.GB13024@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <v04210101baf1f222125d@[192.168.1.27]> References: <v04210118baf1c0d37b6e@[192.168.1.27]> <20030522002446.GE99691@webserver.get-linux.org> <v04210119baf1cf63e794@[192.168.1.27]> <20030522014859.GA13024@dan.emsphone.com> <v04210101baf1f222125d@[192.168.1.27]>
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In the last episode (May 21), Ralph Dratman said: > Your basic idea (fiddle with the source) worked, and now wget is working! Great! > Any advice on getting a live server, now running 4.2, up to 4.7 or 4.8? Two ways. Either one you choose, make sure you have a backup in case something happens. Binary: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/4-STABLE/installation/i386/upgrading.html You basically just boot the 4.8 install CD, and pick Upgrade. It'll install new binaries, but keep most of /etc as-is. You'll probably want to print out the output of "mount" so you can enter the correct filesystem names in the fdisk screen (it doesn't read your existing fstab). Source: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html This method requires you to pull the entire source tree and build all the binaries on your local system. Any reasonably-new machine should be able to build world in a couple hours. After installation, you run mergemaster to update /etc. Has the advantage that you can keep local source mods for binaries, and you can track -STABLE instead of waiting for RELEASEs. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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