Updating /usr/src after updating 4.7->4.8

Paul Hoffman phoffman at proper.com
Sat Apr 5 19:39:50 PST 2003


At 9:56 PM -0500 4/5/03, taxman wrote:
>On Saturday 05 April 2003 09:26 pm, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>  Greetings again. On a test machine, I upgraded from fairly vanilla
>>  4.7 to 4.8 using CD-ROM and /stand/sysintall. At the beginning of the
>>  upgrade, it told me that it would not upgrade /usr/src. After the
>>  upgrade, I see by the dates that it upgraded some of /usr/src, but
>>  not most of it.
>>
>>  What is the proper way to bring /usr/src up to date so that I can
>>  make kernel mods?
>
>cvsup is one of the most common ways.  You need to install it first.  See
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

I was assuming that there was a way to get it off the CD-ROM. Is that not true?


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