From: Marco van Hylckama Vlieg <fa...@pc2-c804.uibk.ac.at> Subject: 3.0-CURRENT -> RELENG_3: trouble ? Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 03:39:57 +0100 (MET)
> Hello all, > > I'm running 3.0-CURRENT at the moment, last timme I built world is > about 2 or 3 weeks ago I guess. What I want to do is go to 3.0-RELEASE > and from then start keeping track of the 3.x-STABLE branch. Careful... making world can be addictive :-) Your system would have been built before the split, so this will be a simple update for you. It can be more difficult trying to move backwards. > > Since I've read a lot about various problems people had with this > I now wonder: is it safe to CVSUP to RELENG_3 right now or will bad > things happen? I don't want to mess up my system. The -stable branch seems to be what's advertised; so far I haven't endured any problems at all. > > If someone could give me some guidelines on how to get going on the > above described track or point me to a webpage/document or anything else > that describes what to do I'd be eternally grateful. At the moment it's > very unclear to me what to do and whether I'll be able to boot and/or > login to my system after I went to RELENG_3. > Not much, I'd recommend getting friendly with mergemaster: /usr/ports/sysutils/mergemaster This script helps with manually updating any possible changes to /etc Most often, on -stable, there aren't any. You'll need to change a line in your cvsupfile from 'tag=.' to 'tag=RELENG_3' I usually do a 'make buildworld' in multi-user mode then shutdown to single user mode to do a 'make installworld' and rebuild and install a new kernel before rebooting. Over here, we prefer to use the cvsup-mirror port to maintain a local repository. The major advantages include having the repository metadata available locally along the ability to mirror the mail archives. >From there, you can either run cvsup against your local cvsupd or use standard CVS commands. I prefer the latter, but the former is faster. > I'm running 3.0-CURRENT with everything ELF including the kernel. > > Any assistance is highly appreciated, It shouldn't offer you any surprises... Good Luck, Jerry Hicks wghi...@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
