Keep 10.0-STABLE up to date on SPARC
John-Mark Gurney
jmg at funkthat.com
Mon Mar 3 17:08:21 UTC 2014
Denny Fuchs wrote this message on Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 12:56 +0100:
> hi,
>
> I want to keep our old SPARC v215 for Icinga (Nagios) and installed FB 10 with ZFS RootFS. The most headache I have, is to keep FB up to date. I red some howtos, but - for example - cvsup is deprecated and freebsd-update isn't available for SPARC.
>
> So, I actually use:
>
> portsnap fetch update
> portupgrade -a
>
> (is it correct?)
>
> But, how I keep the rootfs and kernel up to date?
iirc, svnlite is now part of 10, if not you can install the svn port and
follow:
http://www5.us.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/svn.html
to get the source, and then use the normal source upgrade instructions:
http://www5.us.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html
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