Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 18:08:17 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Dale Morris <dlm@well.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP question (newbie) Message-ID: <20020516180817.A7081@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020515212537.A10855@well.com>; from dlm@well.com on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:25:37PM -0700 References: <20020515210541.A10759@well.com> <20020516161612.A6744@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20020515212537.A10855@well.com>
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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:25:37PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
> * Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> [2002-05-15 21:18]:
> > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:05:42PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
> > > I'm pretty new to the cvsup system. I've got cvsup working and
> > > downloading ports just fine, but I realized that I have upgraded my
> > > machine to current.. I just copied the ports-cvsup file to /root/ and
> > > then ran the command, afterwards doing a portupgrade -a. Pretty slick,
> > > but now I think I want to get back to stable. I have changed the supfile
> > > to read RELENG_4 in order to get the stable ports. When I have them all
> > > downloaded can I just do a portupgrade -a and everything will revert
> > > back?
> >
> > Portupgrade has nothing to do with the version of FreeBSD running on
> > your system. If you want to downgrade from -current to -stable, you'll
> > have to go the buildworld, kernel, installworld and mergemaster method
> > described in the Handbook. Are you sure you're running -current? What
> > does "uname -v" report?
> Hi Jonathan
> uname -v gives me the following:
> FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 28 14:31:56 GMT 2002
> murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENEERIC
This means that you're running -RELEASE. If you re-cvsup your sources
with the RELENG_4 tag, that should bring your sources back to -stable.
If you want to be double sure, you can "rm -r /usr/src" before you do
your cvsup.
Your "portupgrade -a" just upgraded your installed ports, nothing
more. You haven't upgraded your base system at all.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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