Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 19:36:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (Annelise Anderson) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.0.5 to 2.2-SNAP Message-ID: <199605111736.TAA28295@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <01I4KQV1IDOO005EUO@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>
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> > > > > > > > >> I recently used sup to upgrade 2.1R to 2.1-STABLE. I have 2.0.5 > > >> also installed and would like to upgrade it to 2.2-SNAP, but as > > >> far as I can tell this can't be done with sup. Or can it? > > > > > >> Thanks-- > > > > > >> Annelise > > > > >You can try to build world in /usr/src, then build a new kernel > > >reboot and see what happens. I did it this way from a 2.1. Don't know > > >for 2.0.5 though. > > > > This part I know how to do; what I don't know is what to substitute > > for "current" or "stable" in the supfile that tells ftp.freebsd.org > > what I want to get, or what to get "by hand" if necessary. > > :Just get the supfile from ftp.freebsd.org. > Appended is the one I'm using: > # > :src-base release=current host=sup.FreeBSD.org hostbase=/home base=/home prefix=/home/src delete old compress use-rel-suffix > > I think this won't do it--I get either current or stable with the sup file. > What I was interested in was 2.2-SNAP (May 1) and it seems this can't be > done with sup. So, is there some other way to do it? Ouch, you wanted SNAP, sorry. Totally overlooked. No, you can't get SNAP by sup. snap is not a sup target. Then get the sources from SNAP via ftp and build the world. > > Annelise > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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