Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:36:26 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> Cc: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS upgrades... Message-ID: <19991026003626.E316@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910251316520.7133-100000@peloton.runet.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910251653290.66464-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910251316520.7133-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:18:22PM -0400, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > > > I'm running 3.2 on a laptop, and i would like some of the features in > > 3.3. Is there a way to do a selective upgrade? As you all know by > > now, my ISP connection is unreliable, and i would hate to start a 3 > > hours download and have it cut out every 20 minutes. I am mostly > > interested in APM and Linux-compat upgrades, as well as bug fixes. > > Run cvsup - it won't take long (it only updates the files that have > changed so you're not downloading all the source). The recommendation at http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/faq.html is that you run cvsup(1) first with your current release as the tag to build a checkout file. This is to ensure that the correct files (and all of them) are deleted when you actually u/g. This step took ~2 hours for me, the actual u/g 3.1-R -> 3.3-stable took 33 minutes. > I recommend reading > the make world tutorial: > > > http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html > > Brett > ***************************************************** > Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * > Dept of Chem and Physics * > Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * > Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * > Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * > ***************************************************** > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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