At 5:59 PM -0400 2004/06/26, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: >On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:27:19AM +0200, Frerich Raabe wrote: >> Moin, >> >> I attached a patch against the UPDATING file, fixing a few flaws in the >> description of how to do an in-place update of 4-STABLE to 5-CURRENT which I >> noticed while doing exactly that update. Reviewal (and possible subsequent >> commit) would be much appreciated. > >Thanks for finding and fixing the problems with the upgrade instructions! >I've committed it to -CURRENT. There's a small typo in the patch: [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. s/are build/are built/ Chris -- Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/> Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>Received on Sun Jun 27 2004 - 02:37:18 UTC
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