Steps to upgrade from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE

[krad at snaffler.net]

I have done that many times without hitch but would never recommend it 
on a production box even though i have never seen an issue in real world 
situations.

Note the mergemaster -p should be done before the installword as it 
sometimes add new accounts and things that the installworld needs to 
complete.

Artem Kuchin wrote:
>
>
> Mike Clarke ?????:
>> On Thursday 29 January 2009, Akenner wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> For some reason if you follow along line by line in the book "FreeBSD
>>> Unleashed Second edition" which was written and came with 5.0 on CD,
>>> it doesn't work at all for some reason. I think there must have been
>>> a few changes in the way things are done between these versions but I
>>> couldn't get those instructions to work at all. I'm sure it works
>>> great on 5.0 but I kind of fell for 7.1 like a school kid lol.
>>>     
>>
>>
>>   
>
> I have never had a single problem updating system remotely via 
> internet like this:
>
> doing a sup file like this:
>
> *default host=cvsup4.FReeBSD.org
> *default base=/usr
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default compress
>
> src-all
> doc-all tag=.
> ports-all tag=.
>
> Then
>
> csup supfile
>
> Then
> cd /usr/local/src
> make buildworld >& bw
> check the end of bw
> make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN >&bk
> check what's in bk
>
> i redirect output to save the bandwidth and traffic
> stop as many thing as i can stop
>
> make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN
> make installworld >&iw
>
> check what's in iw
>
> mergemaster -p
> mergemaster
>
> disable everything in /local/etc/rc.d and as many as possible in rc.conf
>
> shutdown -r now
>
> and then it's up and it's a new version!
>
> as i said - it never failed!
>
> -- 
> Artem
>
>
>
>
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