The Canonical Way to Update Your System (for 5.x): 1) make buildworld 2) make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 3) make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE 4) <reboot in single user> 5) /etc/rc.d/preseedrandom 6) mergemaster -p 7) make installworld 8) mergemaster 9) <reboot>
Jon
Jon, Cant do this for remote system as you know
Sorry if this is a bit off topic...
Well, you can't reboot into single user on remote (unless you have a remote console setup), but I have done the above steps remotely except for that.
The difference for me was that instead of rebooting into single user, I rebooted into normal system, then shut down each running service/daemon except for ssh before the mergemaster and installworld steps.
I don't know how reliable this method is for others, but it always works well for me (with 5.3 Release and 5.3 Stable at least).
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