Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:44:43 +0400 From: "Andrey Simonenko" <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> To: "Danny Horne" <danny@clifftop.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE Message-ID: <002701c15167$cf1f4960$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> References: <p0500190fb7e991f41dc0@[10.0.1.100]> <004f01c15161$6fd08a60$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> <003301c1516e$7da803e0$0a01a8c0@clifftop.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: Danny Horne <danny@clifftop.net> Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.questions Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE > > Why not just CVSup STABLE branch and compile whole system > > from sources? Take an example for CVSup configuration file > > from the /usr/share/examples/cvsup directoty for STABLE branche, > > install cvsup from package and update your system with "make > > buildworld" and "make installworld". Before clean content of the > > /usr/obj directory. > > > Hi Andrey, > > I wonder if you could explain that in slightly more exacting terms. I'm > planning on upgrading my system from 4.4rc2 to 4.4-RELEASE. Can cvsup do > this? Yes, but is better to upgrade to STABLE branch. > > I've looked at stable-supfile in the examples directory and with a bit of > editing this would seem to be the right supfile. I want only to upgrade the > kernel source & ports collection. It is a bad idea to upgrade only some parts of sysetm, read message here with subject "cvsup not useful" for more information. In your case 4.4rc2 -> 4.4-RELEASE may be it will be normal to upgrade just part of system, but I'm not sure here. > > My server is live so I don't want to screw anything up in the process. One probably will have problems with upgrading only some parts of system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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