On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:37:58 +0000, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas <terie...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> hello,
>
> i have seach to net but i haven't find a way to update my system from
> 8.0-release to stable-8.
>
> can you tell me a way to do this?
Basically, this process contains two main steps: fetching the
sources, and compiling and installing the system.
Step 1 can easily be done by using csup (it's in the base) with
the following configuration:
This into /etc/make.conf:
SUP_UPDATE= yes
SUP= /usr/bin/csup
SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2
SUPHOST= cvsup.freebsd.org
SUPFILE= /etc/sup/stable.sup
This into /etc/sup/stable.sup:
*default host=cvsup.freebsd.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
src-all
You can of course select a mirror near your location.
The tag= parameter selects what you will get, e. g. a certain
specifig RELEASE, patches for a RELEASE, STABLE, or even CURRENT.
The keyword RELENG_8 will give you 8-STABLE.
If you've updated your sorces, read /usr/src/UPDATING, and for the
steps how to start, refer to /usr/src/Makefile. You can also add
compiling options to /etc/make.conf to be involved here; a typical
setting could be setting CPUTYPE.
Then you start.
# cd /usr/src
# make buildworld buildkernel
# make installkernel
Then reboot into single user mode:
# reboot
...
Ok
boot -s
...
When arrived in single user mode, check your partitions via fsck,
and then mount them (mount -a).
# cd /usr/src
# mergemaster -p
# make installworld
# make delete-old
# mergemaster
# reboot
When you now have reached multi user mode again, finally do
# cd /usr/src
# make delete-old-libs
Check the result via
# uname -a
If you do have a custom kernel, add KERNCONF=<name> to the make
calls, e. g.
# make buildkernel KERNCONF=FOOBAR
or
# make installkernel KERNCONF=FOOBAR
respectively.
Finally, see the excellent documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook.
It should cover everything that hasn't been mentioned yet.
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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