Patches &Upgrades

[Marco Greene]

New to FreeBSD.  Have looked through the documentation at length and have 
figure almost everything out that I am trying to use but have a few 
questions.  Have been working with other versions of UNIX, mainly Solaris 
and AIX.  We have 4 servers running production using 4.2 and I have been 
testing the upgrade procedure that is documented.

I have tried:
cvsup...make buildworld...make installworld.  Took a long time but it seemed 
to work...however, when I rebooted, still said 4.2...I was expecting 4.8.  
How can you confirm current version of FreeBSD.  Shouldn't it say 4.8?

I also tried the CD upgrade process...didn't work...when it tried to start 
installing the distribution it said that it couldn't mount the cd onto 
/dist.  Installing from this particular CD seems to work fine.  However, 
booting from the CD and doing an upgrade seems a little strange.

Now about patches...
You don't seem to download patches the way you do for Solaris or AIX.  It 
looks like you have to do the cvsup...make buildworld and make installworld 
thing. This seems like a risky way to do patch installs.  Are there 
pre-packaged binary patches available and if so what is the patching 
mechanism that should be used.

TIA,
Marco
mwegreene at hotmail.com

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