At 09:37 AM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Hi John,
I just updated 2 machines to 4.7. I am not sure you (or I) completely
understand the RELENG thing, but the easiest way to upgrade is to run cvsup
with the standard-supfile and then follow the instructions in the Handbook
on Using make world - section 21.4.
It worked like a charm for me, and I am not an expert programmer or
administrator.
HTH,
PJ
I am still trying to upgrade from RELENG_4_5 to RELENG_4_6 by means of
'cvsup'. I am still failing to build a usable 'ncurses' library. Has
anyone sorted this out? I suppose the problem might be in generating the
dependencies or needing a newer 'make', but it reports as a compiler error
in a file which identical with the version which compiles fine in
RELENG_4_5.
If I instead download the 4.6 CD images and make a CDROM, can I upgrade
while preserving my configuration information? (Naturally I know the
kernel would have some items I don't use, but I want to keep users, their
directories, network setup, etc.)
'Handbook' and 'Complete FreeBSD' pointers welcome for the smoothest
upgrade path.
TIA.
- John Mills
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