Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 21:34:48 -0700 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Kevin <birdman27@adelphia.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating from 4.8 release to 4.8 stable Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20030704195426.01e0bc28@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <001801c34295$84eb0160$6401a8c0@sassycat>
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[CCed to -questions; please followup to -questions.] At 21:34 04/07/2003 -0400, Kevin wrote to freebsd-stable: > I am very new to FreeBSD and just installed 4.8 release. I want to > upgrade this to stable. I have printed some of the pages out for > makeworld and CVSUP, I am wondering what the best method for doing the > updates are, downloading the individual packages and installing or using > the CVSUP to do this? Currently I used mostly Red Hat Linux but have > wanted to give this a try for some time now. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. If you want to update from 4.8-RELEASE to 4.8-STABLE, cvsup to RELENG_4 and go through the usual make buildworld/make buildkernel/make installkernel/make installworld/mergemaster. Theoretically, you could use sysinstall to perform a binary upgrade to the latest STABLE snapshot from snapshots.jp.freebsd.org, but most people opt for the cvsup/make route. Short of performing a complete install of the STABLE snapshot, there isn't any binary upgrade method there; unlike various Linux flavours, the base FreeBSD system is not split into individual packages. That said, if you're new to FreeBSD then I don't think you really want to upgrade to 4.8-STABLE. More likely, you want to track the FreeBSD 4.8 security branch (RELENG_4_8). For that purpose, there is a binary update tool: FreeBSD Update. If you use cvsup to update your ports tree, you'll find FreeBSD Update in /usr/ports/security/freebsd-update/. Of course, there haven't been any security updates in the two months since FreeBSD 4.8 was released, so (for now) this question is immaterial. One note about FreeBSD Update: It should *only* be used after performing a binary install from the official FTP or ISO distributions; if you've compiled any part of the FreeBSD world locally, FreeBSD Update will not work properly. Colin Percival
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