Questions about upgrading from 4.6.2 to 4.7 (and beyond)
James Schmidt
James at JamesSchmidt.com
Wed Mar 26 08:19:34 PST 2003
I apologize in advance for my unfamiliarity with the workings of the
FreeBSD world. Out of the several hundred machines I administer I have
only the one FreeBSD box, and it is considered a production server, so I
don't get much chance to play around with it.
At any rate, one of the tasks I'm going to be undertaking shortly is to
migrate it from 4.6.2-RELEASE-p3 to 4.7-RELEASE (and soon after that, to
4.8) and I have several questions. Actually, to be more precise, I would
just like someone to verify that what I am doing is correct.
First, the overall cvsup process - I want to make sure I am doing this
right, someone please let me know if any of this is incorrect or
inefficient. Below is my cvsupfile:
*default host=cvsup13.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_7
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
src-all
# added manually... collection will be filtered through the refuse file
ports-all tag=.
I should be using the RELEASE branch, and not STABLE or CURRENT, correct ?
The process I follow to cvsup is as follows:
# cd /src/cvsup
# cvsup -g -L 2 ./cvsupfile
Once that is complete, the next steps are to build the kernel and the
sources - and up until now, I've always compiled the kernel the
old-fashioned way (config, make depend, make, make install) - with 4.7,
should I begin using the new and improved method of kernel compiling, as
follows ?
# cd /usr/src
# make buildworld
# make buildkernel KERNCONF=<kernelname>
# make installkernel KERNCONF=<kernelname>
<reboot>
# make installworld
I am sorry to be asking such basic questions. I've read through the
pertinent sections of the online FreeBSD manual and I *think* what I am
doing is correct, but I want to make absolutely sure before I reboot the
machine and end up with a kernel panic, umountable root or something
equally as horrific. If anyone sees any glaring omissions or any other
problems with what I'm doing, please let me know. Again, many thanks.
James Schmidt
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