Date: 09 Nov 2002 10:27:18 +0100 From: Markus Landgren <ei1lama@chl.chalmers.se> To: Michael Ritchie <michaeljritchie@bigpond.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.7-RELEASE Message-ID: <1036834039.359.18.camel@krell.telia.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20021109181410.01a5f338@mail.bigpond.com> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20021109181410.01a5f338@mail.bigpond.com>
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On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 09:51, Michael Ritchie wrote: > I am currently working on two FreeBSD 4.6.2 servers, and wish to upgrade to > 4.7-RELEASE. I have tried to find information about performing this task, > but am having trouble trying to grasp exactly what each > distribution "type" of FreeBSD means. -STABLE can be upgraded to using > the (well documented) cvsup, make buildworld, mergemaster etc process, as > can -CURRENT, but it would seem to me that -RELEASE is given out only as > ISO images, as far as I can see. Disclaimer: I am a newbie, so MAKE BACKUPS before following ANY of my advice. I followed the handbook's instructions for -STABLE but replaced "RELENG_4" with "RELENG_4_7" in the cvsupfile, and successfully ended up with 4.7-RELEASE-p1, the patched version of 4.7-RELEASE. If you for some reason need an unpatched 4.7-RELEASE, that is also possible. In that case you need another tag, which I have been told is "RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE". Note: I have not tried that one myself, so I am not sure if that is correct. Good luck! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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