question on cvsup

[liquid]

To be completely honest, I don't think it's good "practise" to use cvsup
to go from freebsd 4-series to freebsd 5.

I use cvsup all the time to stick to the latest -STABLE branch.  Others
use the -CURRENT branch.  If I were to setup a machine and then decide I
wanted to use the new 5.1 I'd probably tarball /etc, /usr/local/,
/usr/home and /var/qmail and throw them on CD or something and just
start from scratch.  Of course this is my own opinion, and everyone will
share with you different thoughts on this.  I don't know for a fact that
using cvsup will break anything, I just go by the fact that it's
entirely a new release from the ground up and has many different things.

HTH,
Sandro

> 
> ALIAS wrote:
> >
> > i read the manual that came with my freebsd4 package. and i see on
> the
> > website that there's a freebsd5, i want to use cvsup to update my
> system to
> > version 5, and i don't know how to do that, the manual doesn't
> explain it
> > well. can someone help me?
> 
> In the supfile that you use with cvsup, there's a line similar to
> "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_8".  This specifies which version
> of
> the sources you want to sync to.  The handbook has a list of all the
> tags at
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-
> tags.html>
> 
> But you should also be aware that 5.x (aka CURRENT) is not for
> everyone,
> you should read the handbook section at
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-
> stable.html>
> that discusses who should use STABLE and who should use CURRENT.
> 
> Brian
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