Steps to upgrade from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE

[krad at snaffler.net]

here is howto rebuild you system via cvs

dump this into a file

--------------->8

*default host=cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7
*default delete use-rel-suffix
src-all

--------------->8

add these lines to /etc/make.conf

SUP_UPDATE=     yes
SUPFILE=   <file u just created>

then

cd /usr/src
make update && make buildworls && make buildkernel && make installkernel

( if you are multicore do a -j 8 or something on the build lines, 
anything upto 32 should build ok )

reboot

cd /usr/src
mergmaster -p
make installworld
mergmaster

reboot

i theory tou should rebuild all your ports now as well, but generally i 
never both and havent had trouble

if you dont have anything in /usr/src or dont have one just install the 
base src distribution from sysinstall

or

download install.sh, sbase.aa, sbase.inf from you favorite freebsd 
mirror and do a

./install.sh base

eg mine is here

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/7.1-RELEASE/src/
 


Akenner wrote:
> RW wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:07:46 -0700
>> Tim Judd <tajudd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  
>>> Nothing really beats the CVS way.  And when I tried a 7.0 to a 7.1,
>>> it wanted like >30,000 updates and was taking forever.
>>>     
>>
>> It seems to me that most people that come to this list with base-system
>> update problems are using  freebsd-update.
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>   
> This is going to seem stupid, but instead of making a new topic, can 
> someone link to me a working link of the handbook where you update 
> your CVS and so on?  I know that on the FreeBSD page there is a 
> handbook that has exactly what I'm looking for, and for some reason 
> I'm having trouble finding it even though I used to have it saved but 
> I don't anymore and I wanted to get CVS sources updated so I can do 
> some updating.
>
> Thanks
>
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