Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 16:16:12 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Dale Morris <dlm@well.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP question (newbie) Message-ID: <20020516161612.A6744@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020515210541.A10759@well.com>; from dlm@well.com on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:05:42PM -0700 References: <20020515210541.A10759@well.com>
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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:05:42PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
> I'm pretty new to the cvsup system. I've got cvsup working and
> downloading ports just fine, but I realized that I have upgraded my
> machine to current.. I just copied the ports-cvsup file to /root/ and
> then ran the command, afterwards doing a portupgrade -a. Pretty slick,
> but now I think I want to get back to stable. I have changed the supfile
> to read RELENG_4 in order to get the stable ports. When I have them all
> downloaded can I just do a portupgrade -a and everything will revert
> back?
Portupgrade has nothing to do with the version of FreeBSD running on
your system. If you want to downgrade from -current to -stable, you'll
have to go the buildworld, kernel, installworld and mergemaster method
described in the Handbook. Are you sure you're running -current? What
does "uname -v" report?
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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