Upgrade 5.0 to 5.1

[Guy Van Sanden]

Ah, I indeed forgot the system information.
It is a P II 333 MHZ with 256 of RAM and an UDMA 33 HD (40 GB).

Judging from your timings, this is going to take a while...

Does buildworld and installworld always take equally long, even say only
10 files changed?

Are there any pitfalls I should be aware of (seeing that this would be
the first time I attempt such a thing).

On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 18:34, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Saturday 30 August 2003 08:58 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
> > How would I best upgrade my 5.0 installation to 5.1?
> >
> > I have done binary (CD-ROM) updates on 4.x in the past, but I was
> > thinking this could be done using cvsup.
> >
> > Can anyone briefly say wheter this procedure would be right:
> > - change default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_0 to RELENG_5_1
> > - cvsup the new sources
> > - follow instructions to buildworld+installworld in Chapter 21 of the
> > handbook.
> >
> > Any ideas how long this would take ?
> >
> 
> It is totally a function of your computer. Since, you didn't provide 
> that information, we can only provide information on our personal 
> systems. 
> 
> I follow current, since I don't think 5.x is up to 4.x release quality 
> at this point. I don't think it is far off, just not quite there. A 
> buildworld, which is the longest part of an upgrade, requires 50+ 
> minutes on my AMD 1600+ with 512 MB of DDR-266 memory and 3 ATA-100 
> HDs. Having less memory won't affect the build time unless you produce 
> swaping. Having both /usr/src and /usr/obj on the same HD will also 
> increase compile times.
> 
> The buildkernel probably takes on the order of 10 minutes since it is 
> long enough that I won't sit there to watch and I haven't timed my 
> build script. The installs probably take less than 5 minutes.
> 
> Kent