Current Way To Update Sources & Rebuild World/Kernel?
Damien Fleuriot
ml at my.gd
Tue Mar 19 00:13:18 UTC 2013
On Mar 17, 2013 11:07 PM, "Drew Tomlinson" <drew at mykitchentable.net> wrote:
>
> I've been away for a while. In the past, the proper way to update a
system was to grab current sources via cvsup and then rebuild world and
kernel. But now I see cvsup is no longer supported. The handbook talks
about freebsd-update. I do not want binary upgrades but is this the tool
to replace cvsup to update sources? How do I use it to replace the old way
that went something like this:
>
> cvsup sources
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> mergemaster
> make installworld
>
> (I'm not sure I have that in the exact proper order but it was something
like that).
>
> So is freebsd-update what I need? Is there a page that describes the
steps to accomplish this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew
>
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/stable.html
Buildworld
Buildkernel
Installkernel
Reboot
Mergemaster -p
Installworld
Mergemaster
Rebuild ports
Delete-old
Delete-old-libs
Delete-old-dirs
Less /usr/src/Makefile
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