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Date:      Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:46:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Best way to upgrade to 2.2.5-BETA?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971007214548.5738C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199710072130.OAA21745@wiley.csusb.edu>

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On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, William Wong wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Can cvsup be used to upgrade an existing machine to 2.2.5-snap_date-BETA?
> If so, is there also a list of the different tags on the cvsup sites that
> I know I can cvsup to?
> 
> If not, is getting the floppies from releng22.freebsd.org and then pointing
> the ftp site to releng22.freebsd.org for the latest betas the only way to go?

It's probably the best way to go.  The betas are regen'd daily, including
the latest bugfixes.  Upgrade-by-make-world's take some careful merging to
keep from busting everything, particularly the kernel rebuild step.  I've
never done this, it may be easier than it seems to me. :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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