Current Way To Update Sources & Rebuild World/Kernel?
Patrick Lamaiziere
patfbsd at davenulle.org
Mon Mar 18 21:53:28 UTC 2013
Le Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:07:35 -0700,
Drew Tomlinson <drew at mykitchentable.net> a écrit :
> I've been away for a while. In the past, the proper way to update a
> system was to grab current sources via cvsup and then rebuild world
> and kernel. But now I see cvsup is no longer supported. The
> handbook talks about freebsd-update. I do not want binary upgrades
> but is this the tool to replace cvsup to update sources? How do I
> use it to replace the old way that went something like this:
>
> cvsup sources
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> mergemaster
> make installworld
Instead cvsup you have to use svn to retrieve the sources :
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/svn.html
The good way is (and was) mergemaster -p before make installworld and
mergemaster after.
regards
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