Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 12:40:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg <listsub@401.cx> Cc: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dan Pelleg <daniel+fbsdq@pelleg.org> Subject: Upgrading (was) Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210271238500.4235-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3DB7AE43.7050307@401.cx>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > An upgrade consists of the following commands: > 'cvsup -g -L2 stable-supfile && cd /usr/src/ && make buildworld && > make buildkernel KERNCONF=whatever && make installkernel > KERNCONF=whatever && make installworld && reboot' > Theoretically you could just paste those lines into a shellscript, > make a crontab entry and be done Nope. If you're tracking -STABLE, an upgrade isn't guaranteed to be automatable like this - you should check /usr/src/UPDATING. You're also missing any calls to mergemaster to update your configuration files. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Rereleasing dolphins into the wild since 1998. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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