Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 19:50:53 -0600 From: Darren Crotchett <darren@crotchett.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating Message-ID: <20011202015108.75CB337B41C@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20011202014350.9544D37B416@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20011201211900.967F637B421@hub.freebsd.org> <20011201152027.D8217@xor.obsecurity.org> <20011202014350.9544D37B416@hub.freebsd.org>
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Oh. And, I have the second CD. Since I was never prompted for it during the install, I thought it might contain the sources. So, browsing around, I found 3 or 4 tarballs. I thought that I might be able to just untar the sources and cp them to the correct directory. Kinda caveman-like, I know. But, I was running low on options. Darren On Saturday 01 December 2001 07:43 pm, you wrote: > > Okay, you seem to be very confused about things, .... > > Is it that obvious :)? > > Here's a play by play (as close as I can recall everything). > > It started a month or so ago when I decided that I should keep my system as > up to date as possible for security reasons. I was running 4.3-RELEASE. > To update it, I went to /stand/sysinstall and chose update from the menu. > I did the update via passive ftp. I recall it warning me that my src's > would not be updated. At the time I couldn't remember the message. Then, > I continued with the update. When I rebooted, I discovered that I the > system would not boot. So, I figured out that I could boot my old kernel > by typing "boot kernel.prev" after booting stopped. Keep in mind that I'm > teaching myself networking and this box is not running anything critical, > just my web page. But, I want to use it to learn set up other services. > Anyway, since I couldn't remember the message that I had gotten earlier and > coupled with the fact that I don't have a monitor on this box (I just ssh > in), and coupled with the fact that I would have to plug in a monitor to > see exactly what errors I was getting on boot, I decided I'd let it ride > awhile until I had more time to fix it. > > After other areas of my life simmered down a little, I decided to try to > run down my problems (I prefer to do that because I'll learn something) or > just do a backup and start over. So, I downloaded the 4.4-RELEASE iso's. > And, I posted a question to this list a couple of days ago looking for > advice on how to resolve these issues. I got a reply, but never really got > anything that I could work with. So today, I decided that I'd just boot to > the CD and run the update program from there. That's when I got the same > warning message about that I got the first time. It basically warns me > that my /usr/src will not be updated and that I should use CVSup or some > other method that handles "deletion events". I continued with the install > and when I rebooted, the 4.4 kernel booted. Now, all is well when I > reboot. I really don't know what was wrong with it, other than the kernel > wasn't there. OK. That brings me to the current problem. > > I decided to try to update the part that I was warned about. I've never > used CVS before. So, I started out reading most of the man page. That > gave me some direction, but I wasn't getting anywhere. So, I went to the > FreeBSD website and found a link to a tutorial. I attempted to follow it. > I set my CVSROOT environment variable to /usr/src. Then, I tried to follow > the next step in the tutorial which was to type cvsinit. But, I get > "command not found". If I type "cvs update", I get: > fbsd# cvs update > cvs [update aborted]: /usr/src/CVSROOT: No such file or directory > > Since I couldn't find the cvsinit file anywhere, I assumed that I'd need to > get it. So, I went to the /usr/ports/devel/cvsutils directory and tried to > run make (I was hoping that would give me the cvsinit file). That didn't > work. Make craps out. Now I remember trying to install something the > other day and getting pretty much the same errors. I'm starting to see the > connection to the warning message and having outdated sources. > > That's all that I can think of. I might have left out something obvious, > but I don't know what it would be. But, if you need anything else, let me > know. > > TIA, > Darren > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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