On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:07:35 -0700, Drew Tomlinson 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.
Correct. The new way to obtain sources is via Subversion. The OS will hopefully soon get a csup equivalent (svnup) so you don't need to install a port with heavy dependencies. > The handbook talks > about freebsd-update. I do not want binary upgrades but is this the > tool to replace cvsup to update sources? Basically freebsd-update updates the system binarily, as you said. But it can also be used to only update sources. In order to do this, edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf to contain the line "Components src" (means: you remove all the other components such as "world" and "kernel"). Then you proceed to reinstall from source as known. > 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). The exact proper order can be found in the comment header of /usr/src/Makefile. You should stick to that order to avoid problems. Also see the corresponding handbook section. > So is freebsd-update what I need? As explained above - or make yourself familiar with SVN, which is the CVSup / csup replacement. > Is there a page that describes the > steps to accomplish this? See "man freebsd-update" and the comments in /etc/freebsd-update.conf for details. Also see the Handbook's section about updating. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
