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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