Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1

[Ricardo Jesus]

James Wu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm brand new to the list so forgive me if this has been answered. I 
> tried searching the archives and tried googling and didn't come up with 
> any results.
> 
> I've been wanting to play with setfib multi-routing tables in 7.1, 
> however, we have a bunch of 7.0 machines. I thought I'd take a test 
> machine and upgrade it to 7.1. Everything went smoothly at first. I 
> compiled a custom 7.1 kernel and installed it just fine. Afterwards, I  
> ran:
> 
> freebsd-update fetch
> freebsd-update install
> to upgrade to the latest 7.0
> 
> then:
> freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE
> freebsd-update install -r 7.1-RELEASE
> freebsd-update fetch
> to upgrade to 7.1
> 
> now when I do a
> uname -a,
> I get FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 which looks right to me
> 
> The problem I'm running into though is that the setfib binary doesn't 
> seem to been added during the upgrade as I don't see it anywhere. I took 
> a fresh install of 7.1 and do see it /usr/sbin/, but it's not there for 
> the upgraded version of 7.1.
> I guess at this point, I would like to do a reinstall of the sbin folder 
> if it is possible or somehow get a clean copy of the /usr/sbin/ folder 
> into my upgraded machine. Any hints on how to do that?
> 
> James
> 
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The problem is you are mixing custom kernels with freebsd-update. 
freebsd-update only works for binary updates (kernel + userland).

So either stick will freebsd-update or use csup and compile custom 
kernel and world.