upgrading

[Nick Barnes]

At 2003-09-21 10:19:31+0000, "Jacob" writes:
> A few different people have told me different ways here, don't wanna risk
> screwing it up.
> 
> I cvsupped with stable-supfile and ports-supfile, now I'm doing make
> buildworld. Now, the way I was going to do it was after the
> buildworld, make buildkernel KERNCONF=MILOWARE, then make
> installkernel=MILOWARE, then a restart. After that doing make
> installworld then mergemaster.
> 
> Is this right?

The right thing to do is *always* this:

0. Subscribe to -stable.  Do not upgrade if there's a firestorm on
   being reported on -stable.

1. cvsup.

2. Read /usr/src/UPDATING.

3. Follow the instructions there.

Note that this cannot be automated.

Nick B