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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!207.67.253.7!atmnet.net!news.lightside.com!dcs66.dcs-chico.com!user From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.1.0 to 2.1.7 - how to? Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 08:27:04 -0800 Organization: Lightside, Inc. - Internet Access Lines: 30 Message-ID: <fred-0403970827060001@dcs66.dcs-chico.com> References: <5elbnc$l89@shellx.best.com> <5fbkre$9mf@uriah.heep.sax.de> <E6HHI4.BqM@nonexistent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dcs66.dcs-chico.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-no-archive: yes Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36546 In article <E6HHI4.BqM@nonexistent.com>, le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: >J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: >: dhawk@best.com (David Hawkins) wrote: >: >: > Got a headache and not feeling too bright today, so thought I'd ask: >: > how do I upgrade a 2.1.0 box that's on the Internet to 2.1.7? >: > Do I just replace the kernel or do I need to do all of usr.bin as >: > well? >: >: You gotta replace all of them. It's probably the simplest way to just >: use the upgrade option of sysinstall -- but make sure you've got >: proper backups in place, in particular of your /etc directory. > >Where would I put the backups?? > >My 2.1 kernel was recompiled for long user IDs,can the affected files >be patched back in to 2.1.7 or must the process be repeated? > >(What improvements can be expected as a result of this upgrade?) You will have to patch the utmp.h and sys/param.h files (in both /usr/include and /usr/src/include), then make world and build a kernel. Takes forever, but you have to do it unless you are absolutely sure you know exactly which binaries need to be recompiled instead of a make world. -- http://www.lightside.net/~fred/ + net access + http://www.lightside.net/ "Attempts to control the use of encryption technology are wrong in principle, unworkable in practice, and damaging to the long term economic value of the information networks." - UK Labour Party