On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:

> An upgrade consists of the following commands:
> 'cvsup -g -L2 stable-supfile && cd /usr/src/ && make buildworld &&
> make buildkernel KERNCONF=whatever && make installkernel
> KERNCONF=whatever && make installworld && reboot'
> Theoretically you could just paste those lines into a shellscript,
> make a crontab entry and be done

Nope. If you're tracking -STABLE, an upgrade isn't guaranteed to be
automatable like this - you should check /usr/src/UPDATING. You're also
missing any calls to mergemaster to update your configuration files.



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