Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 08:30:16 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: Studded@dal.net (Studded) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade documentation (Was: Re: Make world error on -current elf) Message-ID: <199809262230.IAA21610@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <360D436B.61937B@dal.net> from Studded at "Sep 26, 98 12:41:31 pm"
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Studded wrote: > Even if you don't want the masses updating > right now, at *some* point in the future we want people to migrate from > 2.2 to 3.x, so it's important to shake out the documentation too. :) You I hope the masses won't be using a source level upgrade. I assume that people will be able to take a 3.0-RELEASE CD and upgrade an installed system like they have in the past. > might want to throw in a pointer to Nik's "make world" tutorial as well > so that people can get a better handle on that process as needed. I think Nik should take my words and munge them into something a bit more complete. I skipped over lots of issues that are covered elsewhere. > 1.Update your source tree and mount this as /usr/src. > By "update" I assume that you mean install the 3.0 sources? I guess this needs a link to the CVSup instructions. It's not specifically the 3.0 sources, but the HEAD cvs tag. > 3.Remove any custom options from /etc/make.conf. > Some examples here would be great. For instance, NOPERL is bad, but is > NOSUIDPERL ok? I'm assuming that standard things like CFLAGS= -O -pipe > are ok, yes? It's important to make this clear not only to avoid > mistakes in the initial conversion, but also so that people will know > what's ok to use after the conversion is done. You might also toss in a > warning about make world command line options. IIRC NOCLEAN is the one > that's bitten most people, but I almost always include -DCLOBBER in my > world builds, is this going to be good/bad/indifferent? There are too many combinations, so testing is a nightmare. Most of those options are for experienced current users - they shouldn't be used by people who need to read documentation like this. I guess there is no other place where those words exist, but I don't think they belong here. > Some details on *exactly* what to change related to ldconfig would also > be good. Is all the requisite information in the new rc* scripts? Do I > need to do more than install the new stuff? I understand the objective > from what you've written, I just don't understand how to get there. I've added a few more words about that. I'm trying to avoid quoting slabs of script code. > > I'm assuming that at some point it's necessary to remake /dev, yes? At > what stage in this process should that be done, and how? (I'm guessing > '/bin/sh MAKEDEV all' will do it, but I'd hate to be wrong about that. I'm not sure about that. 8-) -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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