Steps to upgrade from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE
Ricardo Jesus
ricardo.meb.jesus at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 04:39:13 PST 2009
krad at snaffler.net wrote:
> here is howto rebuild you system via cvs
>
> dump this into a file
>
> --------------->8
>
> *default host=cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/usr
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> src-all
>
> --------------->8
>
> add these lines to /etc/make.conf
>
> SUP_UPDATE= yes
> SUPFILE= <file u just created>
>
> then
>
> cd /usr/src
> make update && make buildworls && make buildkernel && make installkernel
>
> ( if you are multicore do a -j 8 or something on the build lines,
> anything upto 32 should build ok )
>
> reboot
>
> cd /usr/src
> mergmaster -p
> make installworld
> mergmaster
>
> reboot
>
> i theory tou should rebuild all your ports now as well, but generally i
> never both and havent had trouble
>
> if you dont have anything in /usr/src or dont have one just install the
> base src distribution from sysinstall
>
> or
>
> download install.sh, sbase.aa, sbase.inf from you favorite freebsd
> mirror and do a
>
> ./install.sh base
>
> eg mine is here
>
> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/7.1-RELEASE/src/
>
>
>
>
> Akenner wrote:
>> RW wrote:
>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:07:46 -0700
>>> Tim Judd <tajudd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Nothing really beats the CVS way. And when I tried a 7.0 to a 7.1,
>>>> it wanted like >30,000 updates and was taking forever.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It seems to me that most people that come to this list with base-system
>>> update problems are using freebsd-update.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>> This is going to seem stupid, but instead of making a new topic, can
>> someone link to me a working link of the handbook where you update
>> your CVS and so on? I know that on the FreeBSD page there is a
>> handbook that has exactly what I'm looking for, and for some reason
>> I'm having trouble finding it even though I used to have it saved but
>> I don't anymore and I wanted to get CVS sources updated so I can do
>> some updating.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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Not sure if the OP wants to track the errata ou the stable branch so
little heads up:
tag=RELENG_7_1 to follow the errata branch
tag=RELENG_7 to follow stable
Regards,
Ricardo Jesus.
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