On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Jon Paterson wrote:
> If these seem like trivial questions please do not flame me, I have never
> attempted to do this before and do not want to damage a working system!
>
> As far as I have researched I need to perform the following actions:
>
>
> 1 get the up to date source (using one of the cvs tools)
>
> 2. make buildworld
>
> 3. make installworld
>
> 4. run mergemaster.
>
> 5. rebuild kernel ???????
Yes, you should always build a new kernel with the same sources with which
you built world. Use the make installkernel/buildkernel method.
>
> 6. reboot (and pray!)
By all means, but it's usually not necessary :)
>
> is this correct or have I missed something out? I assume that the src from
> the updates are for the system only, and not any changes to any of the
> ports. Do I / can I keep the ports up to date also? or is this a bad idea?
Not at all. You need this
*default release=cvs tag=.
in your ports-supfile.
> do I need to "clean" after the install to clear all the temporary files?
I use to rm -rf /usr/obj/* before a new buildworld.
ØS.
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