Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:55:36 -0400 From: pippo@bellnet.ca To: John Mills <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Still going in circles on RELENG_4_5 -> RELENG_4_6 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20021024095107.00aa8368@pop51.bellnet.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210240929060.3032-100000@otter.mills-atl.co m>
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At 09:37 AM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: Hi John, I just updated 2 machines to 4.7. I am not sure you (or I) completely understand the RELENG thing, but the easiest way to upgrade is to run cvsup with the standard-supfile and then follow the instructions in the Handbook on Using make world - section 21.4. It worked like a charm for me, and I am not an expert programmer or administrator. HTH, PJ >I am still trying to upgrade from RELENG_4_5 to RELENG_4_6 by means of >'cvsup'. I am still failing to build a usable 'ncurses' library. Has >anyone sorted this out? I suppose the problem might be in generating the >dependencies or needing a newer 'make', but it reports as a compiler error >in a file which identical with the version which compiles fine in >RELENG_4_5. > >If I instead download the 4.6 CD images and make a CDROM, can I upgrade >while preserving my configuration information? (Naturally I know the >kernel would have some items I don't use, but I want to keep users, their >directories, network setup, etc.) > >'Handbook' and 'Complete FreeBSD' pointers welcome for the smoothest >upgrade path. > >TIA. > > - John Mills > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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