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authorgreen <green@FreeBSD.org>2004-06-26 21:58:56 +0000
committergreen <green@FreeBSD.org>2004-06-26 21:58:56 +0000
commitcb255821c823542b64070fb2864196922202a027 (patch)
tree3d2f008fbb193fafd1202c885048a81da4389be9 /UPDATING
parentcecd534f43c4e8e4c63d5ad42c32c0ed9ea6d14b (diff)
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Make some bugfixes and improve some text in the description of how to
update from 4.x to 5.x. Submitted by: Frerich Raabe <raabe@kde.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 401e490..96fea47 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -1530,16 +1530,16 @@ COMMON ITEMS:
<maybe fix /etc/fstab> [7]
make buildworld [9]
make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8]
- cp src/sys/${MACHINE}/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints [2]
+ cp sys/${MACHINE}/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints [2]
make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
- cd src/sys/boot ; make install [6]
+ cd sys/boot ; make STRIP="" install [6]
[1]
<reboot in single user> [3]
- /etc/rc.d/preseedrandom [10]
+ /usr/src/etc/rc.d/preseedrandom [10]
mergemaster -p [5]
rm -rf /usr/include/g++
make installworld
- mergemaster [4]
+ mergemaster -i [4]
<reboot>
Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
@@ -1609,7 +1609,13 @@ COMMON ITEMS:
that is hard to boot to recover.
[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
- cvs prune empty directories.
+ cvs prune empty directories. Also, if CPUTYPE is defined in your
+ /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the "?=" instead of the "=" assignment
+ operator, so that buildworld can override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
+ In case you would like to avoid installing new packages of everything,
+ you might want to uncomment the "COMPAT4X= YES" entry, so that 4.x
+ compatibility libraries are build which should allow you to continue
+ using your existing software for a while.
[10] In order to create temporary files, /dev/random must be
initialized by feeding data into it. /etc/rc.d/preseedrandom
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