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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:55:36 -0400
To: John Mills <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu>
From: pippo@bellnet.ca
Subject: Re: Still going in circles on RELENG_4_5 -> RELENG_4_6
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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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
>
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