Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Chris
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:12:43 +0100 Ruben de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:57:49PM -0600, Chris typed: > 23.2.2.1 What Is FreeBSD-STABLE? > FreeBSD-STABLE is our development branch from which major releases > are made. Changes go into this branch at a different pace,

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Mel
On Friday 01 February 2008 00:47:12 Allen wrote: > Now, this wouldn't work for some reason or another, but the system > seemed to be doing just fine. I did uname -a and sure enough I had > 6.3 Stable going. However, when typing kdm to load up that so I can > use a gui, it no longer loads, at all,

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:45:30AM -0500, Gerard wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:14:59 +0100 > Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > {snip] > > > Going to single user mode is the less important part of rebooting. > > The other part is that after the reboot you will be running the *new* > >

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Gerard
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:14:59 +0100 Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: {snip] > Going to single user mode is the less important part of rebooting. > The other part is that after the reboot you will be running the *new* > kernel which might possibly be needed for a successful installworld. > I

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 07:41:24AM -0500, Gerard wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:57:49 -0600 > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Assuming you went from 6.3-RELEASE to 6.3-STABLE and also assuming you > > do not have customization in /etc - here's what I do... > > > > After a cvsup of the src

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:57:49PM -0600, Chris typed: > NOTE: I don't use mergemaster unless I go from say 6.3 to 7.0 Not wise. New features and fixes are applied to configuration files and rc scripts regu;arly. You'll probably miss them. > STABLE is the security fix branch. Wrong. According t

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Gerard
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:57:49 -0600 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assuming you went from 6.3-RELEASE to 6.3-STABLE and also assuming you > do not have customization in /etc - here's what I do... > > After a cvsup of the src tree (ensuring I want the STABLE branch > (*default release=cvs tag=R

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-01-31 Thread Chris
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 02:21:42 + (UTC) Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-02-01, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:47:12 -0500 > > Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I've been reading over my library of FreeBSD books, which I may >

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-01-31 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-02-01, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:47:12 -0500 > Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I've been reading over my library of FreeBSD books, which I may add is >> impressive due to me buying EVERY book available on Freebsdmall and >> also buying the

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-01-31 Thread Chris
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:47:12 -0500 Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been reading over my library of FreeBSD books, which I may add is > impressive due to me buying EVERY book available on Freebsdmall and > also buying the PowerPak to make sure my Library is complete, and > also