From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 17:04:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA01228 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 17:04:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-5.mail.demon.net (relay-5.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.48]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA01220 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 17:04:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk by relay-5.mail.demon.net id ab17271; 19 Jul 96 0:52 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa05652; 19 Jul 96 0:51 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA09526; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:42:28 GMT Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:42:28 GMT Message-Id: <199607182142.VAA09526@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: jriffle@ns.kconline.com CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Jim Riffle on Thu, 18 Jul 1996 02:04:30 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: wanting to 'make world' to upgrade Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Jim Riffle writes: > > 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? No, you have to merge in changes to /etc by hand. > 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? Strictly speaking you should, but I've never had any problems doing it in multi-user mode. I was very cautious about using system programs while it was installing, though. > 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" You have to re-compile the kernel separately after 'make world' has finished. I'm not sure offhand whether it would show up as 2.1.5-stable or 2.1.5-release, but it won't be "2.1.0-stable". > 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? It may well be easier and quicker that way. Even with a top-range Pentium with lots of RAM, it will probably take 3-4 hours to do a 'make world' (it takes 5-6 hours on my P100). -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/