From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 00:07:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA01512 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.kconline.com (ns.kconline.com [207.51.167.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA01505 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jriffle@localhost) by ns.kconline.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA15547 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 02:04:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 02:04:30 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Riffle To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: wanting to 'make world' to upgrade Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was considering upgrading from 2.1.0-Release to 2.1.5-Release via the ctm deltas for 2.1.0-Stable, but have a few questions about this. 1. Would doing a make world clobber my /etc directory? 2. I would like to do this in a running system, I really do not want to take the system down to single user mode to do this, does this pose a problem? 3. If I were to upgrade in this fashion, what would "uname" report the kernal as being after I recompile it? "2.1.0-Stable" or "2.1.5-Release" 4. Any other concerns anyone can thing about doing it this way? Would it just be better to boot off the floppie and do an "upgrade" install? Thanks, Jim