-Stable periodic updates

Zantgo zantgo at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 19:01:44 UTC 2011



El 05-11-2011, a las 11:58, "Michael Ross" <gmx at ross.cx> escribió:

> Am 05.11.2011, 15:36 Uhr, schrieb Zantgo <zantgo at gmail.com>:
> 
>> I will say my question clear.
>> If I have FreeBSD-8.2-stable, updated 2011/05/18, what I want to do is update the current, as for example 2011/11/01. I am willing to read me a manual that tells me how to do this._______________________________________________
> 
> 
> I do it like this:
> 
> put this in "stable-supfile":
> 
>    *default host=cvsup.de.FreeBSD.org
>    *default base=/var/db
>    *default prefix=/usr
>    *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8
>    *default delete use-rel-suffix
> 
>    *default compress
> 
>    src-all
> 
> execute:
> 
>    csup stable-supfile
>    cd /usr/src
>    make buildworld
>    make buildkernel
>    make installkernel
>    mergemaster -p
>    make installworld
>    mergemaster -a
>    reboot
> 
> 
> You now have updated to a "current" 8-STABLE.
> This is, if 8.3 would exist, you would now have 8.3-STABLE.
> If you just want security patches for 8.2 and not go to 8.3 if it comes out,
> you have to define tag=RELENG_8_2
> 
> 
> This is not the same as tag=HEAD.
> tag=HEAD gives you CURRENT, which is 9.0-RC1 i believe.
> Do not confuse these.
> 
This also updates ports right?
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/makeworld.html


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