What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

[af300wsm at gmail.com]

On Feb 23, 2009 6:41am, Erich Dollansky <oceanare at pacific.net.sg> wrote:
> Hi,



> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 01:15 +0000, af300wsm at gmail.com wrote:



> > My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD

> > 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this  
> point

> > and then stops with this error:



> so, you did what you are supposed to do to get the latest source.

> >

> > So, basically, the question for everyone here is, what's the simplest  
> way

> > to get a fresh source code tree so that I can build the world  
> applications?

> >

> If you want to make sure that nothing damaged is in your way, delete

> everything under /usr/src except of your configuration file.



> You also could use this to upgrade to 7.1.


I have considered that. There are a few ports installed on this system  
however, MySQL and Apache being the most important. How does one go about  
upgrading to a newer release and ensuring that the ports of "pristine" also  
when the upgrade is completed.

I was thinking of this approach, please advise if I'm mistaken.

1) comment all installed ports from auto-loading in rc.conf
2) upgrade kernel to newest release (7.1)
3) upgrade user land applications
4) csup the ports tree
5) portupgrade -a
6) uncomment the commented lines from rc.conf
7) reboot and hope all works as planned

Does this sound appropriate?

Andy