CVSup update or upgrade

[Chris]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:47:12 -0500
Allen <doomnix at comcast.net> 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 I've been reading the freebsd.org docs because I'm working on
> getting an upgrade to work properly.
> 
> Here is what happened:
> 
> I did as the website said and changed the cvsup example file which is
> the one I'm using, to a FreeBSD cvsup server, left most of it alone,
> because I wanted to use most packages, so I wanted basically every app
> available, and when rebooting, after doing this:
> 
> # make buildworld
> # make buildkernel
> # make installkernel
> # reboot

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=RELENG_6) 

# cd /usr/src
# make buildworld
# make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC (Assuming you use GENERIC)
# make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC (Assuming you use GENERIC)
# shutdown -r now (no need for Single-User Mode if YOU are the only
user)

# cd /usr/src
# make installworld
# shutdown -r now

NOTE: I don't use mergemaster unless I go from say 6.3 to 7.0

> I booted in single user mode and tried this:
> 
> # mergemaster -p
> # make installworld
> # mergemaster
> # reboot
> 
> 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, it pops up for a split second
> to just stop totally, and then gives me a message about the hostname.

See above for your RELENG Tag


> I thought it was odd, and XDM actually loads, but won't load X 
> itself as it too goes out with errors about hostname.

You may need to update your ports tree and your installed packages
since you went to STABLE

> I don't have the exact message which I know is bad form on my part,
> but I decided to just try updating again as I was kind of wondering
> what RELEASE is like instead of stable.

STABLE is the security fix branch.

*snip*

Someone else may follow up the rest with you.

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

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