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Date:      Tue, 21 Dec 1999 13:48:15 -0500 (EST)
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   handbook procedure for upgrading via cvsup confusion
Message-ID:  <14431.52079.94710.758347@onceler.kcilink.com>

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Yesterday, I went through the process of upgrading via cvsup to
3.4-STABLE on my 3.3-STABLE box.  I had a couple of things confuse me.

I picked up the hint to run 'mergemaster' from this list.  The
handbook doesn't mention this handy utility at all.  It walks you
through the long laborious process by hand.  Wouldn't it be good to
mention the existence of this wonderful tool right at the top of that
section in the handbook?

Secondly, the part about updating /stand...  doing as the handbook
suggests "make all install" in release/sysintall only updates the
sysinstall program; it doesn't update all the hard links to it.  Also,
the file size is greatly reduced, leading me to believe that it is not
a proper upgrade of that directory.  What is the proper way to upgrade
the /stand directory and the subdirectories within it (the help and
TXT files)?

Other than that, it went extremely smoothly, and there were no
problems whatsoever in getting it up and running.


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