Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup)

John Cruz cruzweb at gmail.com
Tue May 9 17:32:41 UTC 2006


Robert Huff wrote:
> John Cruz writes:
>
>   
>>  So I want to upgrade to 6.1, but I've never used cvsup before and all 
>>  the documentation is confusing as can be.
>>     
>
> 	What particularly of cvsup do you find confusing?
> 	On the larger question: it /may/ be easier to do a binary
> upgrade.  On the other hand, learning about the
> cvsup/build{world.kernal} process will teach you new and interesting
> things about FreeBSD, and make it easier to recover should something
> go Horribly Wrong.
>
>
> 				Robert Huff
>   
Specifically it would be the supfile stuff, everything I've been reading 
says "if you put in the wrong thing here, you can screw the whole system 
up", and there aren't a lot of concrete examples, just stuff you can add 
to it. So I guess what I need is a supfile example of everything I need 
to upadate my kernel and library sources and what not, then I can do a 
make world on it later.

-John


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