Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:33:42 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: OldFrog <OldFrog@palaver.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS/CVSup Message-ID: <99479.954509622@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2000 06:43:11 CST." <4.3.2.20000331064127.00aa2bd0@mail.bfm.org>
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 06:43:11 CST, OldFrog wrote: > One of the machines is running 3.2 and one is running 3.1 I would like to > upgrade boths systems to the 3.4 STABLE version using CVSup.... is this > possible? It certainly should be. Since both machines are already past the AOUT/ELF transition, it should be relatively painless. :-) Just pull down RELENG_3 sources and do the usual. > Secondly, I would like to upgrade the "ports" package data to reflect all > the appropriate changes without actually loading the tarballs.. I realize > that this would require that the system would have to ftp to a repository > server to get the tarball if needed, but that is easier than finding space > for the whole collection . .. any suggestions?? Once you have 3.4-STABLE (which is what the RELENG_3 sources will give you), check out the new pkg_version(1) utility. You'll be pleasantly surprised. :-) > Also, please presume I am dirt ignorant about doing this sort of > thing, the truth is probably MUCH worse than that... You'll be fine. :-) > Also.. when I did the 'make install' on cvsup, I Iost a great deal of > drive space that was there before.. is there a cleanup step that I > missed? If you mean that you lost a lot of space building cvsup from source with the ports mechanism, you can reclaim a lot of that space by 1) Removing the cvsup and modula distfiles from /usr/ports/distfiles . Modula is something required for building (but not running) cvsup. 2) Doing a ``make clean'' in /usr/ports/net/cvsup . Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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