How to use snapshots

Joel rees at ddcom.co.jp
Tue May 17 04:45:23 PDT 2005


(reformatted, to maintain the thread)
> > > > > ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/   looks like
> > > > install disc1
> > > > > content.
> > > > >
> > > > > How or what do I need to run to use this to update my system?
> > > > >
> > > > > Been to the official handbook with no luck.
> > > >
> > > > It's exactly like any other install image.
> > > > Boot the floppies and do a binary upgrade.
> > >
> > > I have no idea what you mean by those statements.
> > > What floppies are you talking about?
> > > What does what you say have to do with system snapshots.
> > >
> > > How do I download the snapshot version with all the files and
> > > sub-directors?
> > >
> > > This snapshot URL must be a normal thing available to the general
> > > FreeBSD user.
> > > So there must be some pre-canned way to download and use it.
> > > How do I find this out?
> > 
> > Read this whole section:
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html
> > 
> > Note, in particular, under the heading
> > 
> >     19.2.2.3 Using FreeBSD-STABLE
> 
> That section says  "If you are installing a new system and want it
> to be as stable as possible, you can simply grab the latest dated
> branch snapshot from
> ftp://snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ and install it
> like any other release. Or you can install the most recent
> FreeBSD-STABLE release from the mirror sites and follow the
> instructions below to upgrade your system to the most up to date
> FreeBSD-STABLE source code."
> 
> OK now how does this answer my question of  HOW do I grab the
> snapshot I want????
> 
> I know how to use the normal FTP mirror site to fetch the .iso file
> and burn a bootable cdrom  or use cvs to build the sources to
> recompile the complete system.

Then you should, as nearly as I understand it, know how to install or
upgrade to a snapshot. Try re-reading 

    19.2.2 Staying Stable with FreeBSD

Or were you wondering which tag to pick up. Take a look at sections A.5
and A.6.

<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html>
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html>

I used cvsup, and I think I used the tag RELENG_5 to get the most recent
stable at that point. The steps for buildworld were straightforward,
though I had plenty of time to do other things while waiting. I used
portupgrade, which is linked somewhere in those pages, to bring the
ports up to the current kernel and userland after that also took a fair
amount of time. (Days, in fact.)

And I did have to read those pages and several others they reference
several times while I was following the instructions to get a good idea
of what was happening.

Beyond that, I don't know what to tell you. 

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