upgrading from 8.2 to 9.1 using cvsup

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Fri Apr 26 17:25:26 UTC 2013


On 26 April 2013 09:41, Kurt Lidl <lidl at pix.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 09:22:53AM +0200, Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
>> Hello on my blade 1000 I upgaded form sources but I got the source code
>> from cvsup
>>
>> I realized only after rebuilding hte world and isntallign everything
>> that cvsup is not anymore supported.
>>
>> my question is, do I have the latest patches or I need to get the source
>> tree with svnup and rebuild everything again ?
>
> Well, the uname output says '9.1-RELEASE-p2', which means you
> probably have the latest security patches only.
>
> If you mean to track 9.1-RELEASE, yes, you are probably up to date.
> If you mean to track stable/9, no, you are not up to date.
>
> Given that for the forseeable future, SVN is what the FreeBSD
> project is going to use, it's probably worthwhile to just
> compile up svn, and then checkout the source tree you wish to
> follow, and you'll be future-proofing your installation.

net/svnup is also an option.

-- 
Eitan Adler


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