From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 17:46:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE8737B719 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:46:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A1B5F5; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:46:22 -0900 (AKST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission To: Marc W , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:46:22 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <200102282108.NAA45629@akira.lanfear.com> In-Reply-To: <200102282108.NAA45629@akira.lanfear.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01022816462200.49019@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 28 February 2001 12:08, Marc W wrote: > okay, so i'm going to give this a go. I've got a 4.1 system here, > but want to upgrade it to 4.2 using the ports and all the automated > rebuilding systems. > > So, I went to /usr/ports/cvsupit, and installed and ran it, and it > gave me the choice of tracking RELENG_4, which is i think what i want. > > now, the question is -- after i've run this -- what do i have? a > -STABLE or a -CURRENT ??? i'd really rather stay away from the -CURRENT > releases and stay with a -STABLE.... RELENG_4 will give you 4.2 STABLE > > after reading the docs it appears that all that is left after that > is > > make -DNOPROFILE=true buildworld > make -DNOPROFILE=true installworld\ then: make buildkernel KERNCONF=FOO <--YOUR KERNEL NAME make installkernel KERNCONF=FOO > reboot > > that's it? Not quite run mergemaster (see man mergemaster) > thanks! > > marc. > your welcome - Beech > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Network Manager - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message