Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 18:16:47 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein_Skundberg?= <yskundbe@chello.no> To: Jon Paterson <jpaterson@itchannel.net> Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Correct sequence for keeping a 4.1 system stable. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010051809390.235-100000@igloo.chello.no> In-Reply-To: <A0E035400B00D4118F9E0008C70D4D77A88A@ITC1>
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On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Jon Paterson wrote: > If these seem like trivial questions please do not flame me, I have never > attempted to do this before and do not want to damage a working system! > > As far as I have researched I need to perform the following actions: > > > 1 get the up to date source (using one of the cvs tools) > > 2. make buildworld > > 3. make installworld > > 4. run mergemaster. > > 5. rebuild kernel ??????? Yes, you should always build a new kernel with the same sources with which you built world. Use the make installkernel/buildkernel method. > > 6. reboot (and pray!) By all means, but it's usually not necessary :) > > is this correct or have I missed something out? I assume that the src from > the updates are for the system only, and not any changes to any of the > ports. Do I / can I keep the ports up to date also? or is this a bad idea? Not at all. You need this *default release=cvs tag=. in your ports-supfile. > do I need to "clean" after the install to clear all the temporary files? I use to rm -rf /usr/obj/* before a new buildworld. ØS. -- Thank you. I feel so much better now. http://www.determinism.com yskundbe@chello.no * http://home.chello.no/~yskundbe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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