Comments on: FreeBSD cvsup: Update The FreeBSD From Previous Releases Using Source Code

By: Dictator

Dictator — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:39:07 +0000

Thank you sir for your post. Finally someone in the unix world that can write at a level a human can understand without either a butt load of useless crap, or not enough notes as to what is what… You should write a book. :)

By: Brent

Brent — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:10:05 +0000

Oh, got it. I had to change the OS version in the supfile, first time I just rebuilt the same tree I already had. When I changed the OS version from 6.2 to 7.1, I had an error with sendmail after running “make buildworld” on an old 600 mHz machine.

By: Brent

Brent — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:58:10 +0000

Hi,
I went through the steps and all seemed to go well until the very last item.

portversion: not found
portupgrade -a : not found

Now, when I try a pkg_add packagename, it still looks for the 6.2 version and when I issue uname -a, it stills says 6.2.

Any hints to point a BSD newb in the right direction (a little different than the RedHat/Fedora world)?

Thx

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:14:15 +0000

I got a data check error when I csup’ed on a standard fbsd7 system. As per manual advice I changed the supfile’s line

*default release=cvs …etc to
*default release=cvs delete …etc

Then csup worked returning finished succesfully.

I had installed the kernel source from an iso cd previously which may have been the problem.
It may help someone trying this out first time.

Doug.