From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 9 20:39:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C9A16A420 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 20:39:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1812443D45 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 20:39:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C2B95CF5; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:39:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26422-06; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:39:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-67-226.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.67.226]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB175C15; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:39:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43EBA87B.40607@mac.com> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:39:23 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wo_shi_big_stomach References: <20060209184434.6396.qmail@web32914.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060209184434.6396.qmail@web32914.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovering from failed cvsup upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:39:20 -0000 wo_shi_big_stomach wrote: > Thanks -- I have that system back. Whew. [ ... ] You're welcome. > The upgrade routine warned that it could not replace > the /usr/src tree and that cvsup was the right way to > do this. > > To get this system from 5.4-RELEASE to RELENG_5_4, am > I ok just cvsup'ing src-all followed by the rest of > the steps you indicated? You're probably better off deleting /usr/src and /usr/ports, installing the more recent version of them off the the CD image, and then using CVSup to update them from there. Not only is this likely to be faster, it will avoid inheriting any stale source files that may be lurking... -- -Chuck