how does one do a proper buildworld to upgrade to 5.1 stable?

can you post a complete step by step guide for me please?

there's a complete step by step guide installed with your installation. its called the freebsd handbook. But since its so easy, i'll enlighten you.

First cvsup your sources. For some stupid reason, the stable-supfile in freebsd5 by default, will try to cvsup the 4.X source, efectively deleting the 5.X source. idoits. anyways, to fix this, copy the /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile to /root/ (or any other directory), and open it with your fav editor. Go the the line that reads

and change it to read

also change the default host.

save and exit and run cvsup stable-supfile. It will take a while to complete.

after this, do the following:

and you will have the latest stable release available.

ta shweet, I had already edited my stable-supfile to include

someone told me to edit it as such; to get teh cutting, bleeding edge...
but I just want my box running stable. shweet!

oh and should i cvsup ports tree before I begin?

ahh cool.

I did a build world for jails... it wasnt much more than "make world DEST_DIR=/jails/192.168.0.7" or something

errrr APPARENTLY to get 5.1 stable your tag files are supposed to be RELENG_5 and not RELENG_5_1

RELENG_5 is for 5.0 apparently
so RELENG_5_1 is for 5.1

and the tag=* is for -CURRENT. not recommended unless you really know what you are doing. Not even i want to bother with that. Whats the use anyhow.

aquadog seems to have forgotten mergemaster. It is not 100% necessary, however there might be some changes in the /etc tree which would make your system missbehave(not boot?). So read the man page first because it can be a bit tricky to use.

Oh and btw, if you are upgrading between major release versions (4.x to 5.x) you need to run mergemaster -p in order to make changes in /etc necessary for the successful completion of a buildworld.

o yeah. totally slipped my mind. Also, when running mergemaster, dont be a dolt and replace your master.passwd!

ok explain that over?

when do I run mergemaster and how do I prevent the master/passwd from being overwritten?

and I believe that mergemaster must be run in single user mode
when in the sequence do I run it?

It is preffered to run mergemaster in single user mode. When it asks you to Install new master.passwd, keep the old one or merge both, select merge.

Then it will show you line by line the differences between your file and the one from the sources. Use 'L' and 'R' to select weither you wish to use the line from the left or the right file (run it and you'll see what I am talking about).

There are a few other files I can think of that shouldn't be replaced but rather merged with the newer versions - groups, sshd_config, crontabs and anything else you might have customized.

so when do I run mergemaster?

after the buildworld? or before?

run mergemaster -p before a buildworld and mergemaster after.
mergemaster -p installs files in /etc that might be necessary for a successful buildworld

so, here it is on the silver platter for you.
Make your lives a lot easier when merging and yes, you should do a mergemaster -p before the build..

First run
mergemaster -a -i
That will delete all the stuff that matches your files id's from temproot, aswell as install any missing files (new shit) and delete them from the temproot.

Then you can
mergemaster -v

Say yes to using the existing temproot - means less work cuz half the shit is already gone - then go step by step through the files, merging/deleting/installing.
Afterwards make monkey love to a bitch and make her call you Dave.

RELENG tags work as follows (if I recall):
RELENG_5 probably will get you 5.1 - RELENG_5_1 should get you 5.1-RELEASE, RELENG_5 right now will probably get you 5.1-STABLE or 5.2-PRE or something along the lines. See, stable is a moving target, under development - changes get made.. RELEASE-p* only does patches, like sendmail vuln or something, I reckon you stick with RELEASE's, not STABLE. In order to get a release you just change the RELENG tag to its release - RELENG_4_7 = 4.7-RELEASE-p11

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