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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:29:48 -0800
From:      "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com>
To:        "jomor" <jomor@ahpcns.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cvsup 3.x-STABLE to 4.x-STABLE
Message-ID:  <00fb01c0ac49$02a483a0$029b140a@danco>

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>I need to bring my home firewall/server up to date. I've been tracking
>3.x-STABLE but I want to bring it to 4.x-STABLE. I'm hoping I can just
>edit my cvsup "stable-supfile" to point it at the right version, cvsup
>the source, and make world without too much clean up.  Anybody care to
>share any big "gotchas" that I might come accross with this plan?

Last summer I wrote up the procedure in my cheat sheets
(http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/sheet.cgi?3-4upgrade).

Although it's now quite old, it should still work. At least take a look at
it, since it points you to the official documentation.

My best piece of advice: After you cvsup the new sources, make sure you read
/usr/src/UPDATING carefully. (Then, of course, back up everything you want
to keep...)

Although the transition from 3 to 4 is definitely more convoluted than an
update within the 3 branch, it's actually not that bad. And 4-STABLE is
worlds better; you won't look back.

Good luck,

--Dan

--
Dan O'Connor
On Matters of Most Grave Concern
    http://www.mostgraveconcern.com
FreeBSD Cheat Sheets
    http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/



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