On 12/20/2011 11:16 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
Then afterwards, can I check out the -current branch from CVS as
I do with -stable? i.e. # cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -P src
Or am I not supposed to fetch& build -current at all? Would it
You can checkout src if you want, but you don't have to,
you can just install the binary sets just as you would for a release
be safer to just download the /snapshots/i386/install50.iso every
couple weeks and do a fresh install every time? I guess I will
There's really no need for fresh installs, upgrades work very well
No need for install*.iso either, just download a new bsd.rd and
boot that from the boot loader (boot /bsd.rd) and do a network
upgrade install
Out of curiosity, is this more efficient and/or less loading on the
servers than downloading the iso (assuming one installs all sets)?
Using snapshots is for me the best way to follow -current, as I'm much
more a user than a developer. But I tend to get the iso and a few
packages that I know I'll need for a particular snap so I can have a
consistent base to reinstall from or whatever if I'm not able to update
to a more current snapshot. But if that is really beating the crap out
of the servers unnecessarily (I do use mirrors), I'll switch to getting
bsd.rd or floppy image and doing network upgrades where I can.
TIA,
Corey
