Re: Upgrade 4.8-4.9 help!

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Bob Perry wrote:

Eric F Crist wrote:

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 06:25 pm, richard wrote:
 

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade Freebsd 4.8 to 4.9 using sysinstall | upgrade 
off a
4.9 CD.  All seems fine until it gets to the point where it reports it
can't even extract the bin distribution and fails.

Does anyone know of a fool-proof way to get this upgrade through?
Preferably some idiot-proof instructions I can follow.
Cheers,
Richard
  


Richard,

If you have broadband, install cvsup, read the man page on that, and 
install new sources over FTP via cvsup.  Once you have a correct 
supfile, it's pretty brainless.  Most of us have some upgrading done 
via cron on a regular basis, completely unattended.
 

Would you care to summarize your upgrading procedure which you process 
on a "regular
basis, completely unattended."?  Details not necessary at this time, 
just very curious.

Thanks,
Bob Perry
HTH
 



Haven't done it, but I'm guessing it's:

X      Y      Z      A            cvsup /path/to/my.supfile
Q      R      S      T            cd /usr/src && make buildworld > 
/my/homedir/buildworld.log
"make buildkernel etc., make installkernel, make installworld, etc.

I've been thinking of scripting this procedure and
then just calling "upgrade.php*" via cron.  Doubt that
it'd be too good for the 'mergemaster' step, though.
FWIW, the chapter in the handbook actually
makes the procedure pretty clear.
Kevin Kinsey

*Yeah, PHP for scripting, I know ... give a old
 dog new languages?  Not yet, please....  ;-)
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