Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:59:00 +0100 From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> To: "Jacob" <amen@internode.on.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading Message-ID: <12829.1064235540@thrush.ravenbrook.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "Jacob" <amen@internode.on.net> <200309211019.h8LAJVTT055493@smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net>
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At 2003-09-21 10:19:31+0000, "Jacob" writes: > A few different people have told me different ways here, don't wanna risk > screwing it up. > > I cvsupped with stable-supfile and ports-supfile, now I'm doing make > buildworld. Now, the way I was going to do it was after the > buildworld, make buildkernel KERNCONF=MILOWARE, then make > installkernel=MILOWARE, then a restart. After that doing make > installworld then mergemaster. > > Is this right? The right thing to do is *always* this: 0. Subscribe to -stable. Do not upgrade if there's a firestorm on being reported on -stable. 1. cvsup. 2. Read /usr/src/UPDATING. 3. Follow the instructions there. Note that this cannot be automated. Nick B
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