Upgrade 5.0 to 5.1

[Kent Stewart]

On Saturday 30 August 2003 11:44 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
> Ah, I indeed forgot the system information.
> It is a P II 333 MHZ with 256 of RAM and an UDMA 33 HD (40 GB).
>
> Judging from your timings, this is going to take a while...

Yes, on a machine with that speed, it will be several hours.

>
> Does buildworld and installworld always take equally long, even say
> only 10 files changed?

Buildworld always takes about the same time. The installworld on my 
machine runs <4 minutes.  Running mergemaster the first time on an 
upgrade can take a while. You need to look at /usr/src/UPDATING for 
when you need to run it and the options. 

The installs are always fast and only the builds take much time.

>
> Are there any pitfalls I should be aware of (seeing that this would
> be the first time I attempt such a thing).

That you have done a full src-all on your cvsup. There are also some 
options that help in your /etc/make.conf. From what I saw a little 
while ago, the default make.conf is now in the examples directory. 

Don't let mergemaster replace your hosts entries and your user entries 
in master.passwd and groups. I edit the password entries manually with 
vipw and groups with vi. If you have a special /etc/printcap, it will 
try to replace it. Just pay attention is all that is required. You can 
save trouble if you back up /etc before you do the installs.

Kent

>
> On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 18:34, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > On Saturday 30 August 2003 08:58 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
> > > How would I best upgrade my 5.0 installation to 5.1?
> > >
> > > I have done binary (CD-ROM) updates on 4.x in the past, but I was
> > > thinking this could be done using cvsup.
> > >
> > > Can anyone briefly say wheter this procedure would be right:
> > > - change default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_0 to RELENG_5_1
> > > - cvsup the new sources
> > > - follow instructions to buildworld+installworld in Chapter 21 of
> > > the handbook.
> > >
> > > Any ideas how long this would take ?
> >
> > It is totally a function of your computer. Since, you didn't
> > provide that information, we can only provide information on our
> > personal systems.
> >
> > I follow current, since I don't think 5.x is up to 4.x release
> > quality at this point. I don't think it is far off, just not quite
> > there. A buildworld, which is the longest part of an upgrade,
> > requires 50+ minutes on my AMD 1600+ with 512 MB of DDR-266 memory
> > and 3 ATA-100 HDs. Having less memory won't affect the build time
> > unless you produce swaping. Having both /usr/src and /usr/obj on
> > the same HD will also increase compile times.
> >
> > The buildkernel probably takes on the order of 10 minutes since it
> > is long enough that I won't sit there to watch and I haven't timed
> > my build script. The installs probably take less than 5 minutes.
> >
> > Kent

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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